ROSA PARKS: MY STORY

Parks, Rosa, with Jim Haskins

ISBN 10: 0803706731 / ISBN 13: 9780803706736

Edité par Dial Books, New York, NY, 1992

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This is a unique piece of American History. Contained in these pages are the simple words and testimony of a principal who sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955. Ms. Parks was a catalyst in the forward move for equal rights, much of her courage, conscience, and comittment being offered here. There are numerous photographs, a chronology, and an index. There is faint sunning to the spine of the jacket; otherwise, this copy is clean, solid, and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title: "3/17/92 Rosa Parks." The jacket is in mylar. N° de réf. du vendeur 013133

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Titre : ROSA PARKS: MY STORY

Éditeur : Dial Books, New York, NY

Date d'édition : 1992

Reliure : Cloth

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : First Edition, First Printing

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Synopsis :

Haskins James : Rosa Parks "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in". These are the simple yet eloquent words of Rosa Parks, who on December 1, 1955, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Written in her own straightforward and moving language, this is her compelling story. Full description

Présentation de l'éditeur:

"Even those familiar with her name will realize on reading this engrossing account how little they really know of Parks's life and the events that surrounded the dawning Civil Rights movement. Setting her historic refusal to give up her seat on a bus in the context of a life that began in 1913 in rural Alabama dramatizes the fact that her action came at a time and place that gave it the force to challenge the rigors of a lopsided system of justice. Few will be unmoved by the tactics employed by whites to disrupt the subsequent boycott; at the center, always, is Parks's dignified, calm recounting of outrages against her and other women and men, giving her words weight and impact as no raw fury could. Like sitting at the knee of an elder with much to tell, reading her story leads to ever more questions ('What was it really like then?') and shock that such injustices not only existed in the recent past but still linger."  - Kirkus Reviews