Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Life of Rosa Parks (Lives)

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On 1 December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet and dignified 42-year-old black seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest led to a 381-day boycott of the city's bus system, led by Martin Luther King, which is now considered the beginning of the American civil rights movement. Rosa Parks' personality and character were an important part of the bus boycott's success. Graceful, reserved and a devout churchgoer, she was also a civil rights activist alongside her daytime job as a seamstress, and she believed in the use of righteous force when necessary. In 1957 she and her husband moved north to Detroit, where she continued to work for civil rights, taking part in most of the great marches of the 1960s. She was a great admirer of Martin Luther King, and he of her, and his assassination in 1968 was a bitter blow. After King's death, the movement began to lose its way and Rosa Parks believed that anger and violence were replacing non-violent social protest. This book about the life and times of a remarkable and inspiring woman is also a brilliant re-creation of mid-century American life.

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On 1 December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet and dignified 42-year-old black seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest led to a 381-day boycott of the city's bus system, led by Martin Luther King, which is now considered the beginning of the American civil rights movement. Rosa Parks' personality and character were an important part of the bus boycott's success. Graceful, reserved and a devout churchgoer, she was also a civil rights activist alongside her daytime job as a seamstress, and she believed in the use of righteous force when necessary. In 1957 she and her husband moved north to Detroit, where she continued to work for civil rights, taking part in most of the great marches of the 1960s. She was a great admirer of Martin Luther King, and he of her, and his assassination in 1968 was a bitter blow. After King's death, the movement began to lose its way and Rosa Parks believed that anger and violence were replacing non-violent social protest. This book about the life and times of a remarkable and inspiring woman is also a brilliant re-creation of mid-century American life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 Nov 2001
ISBN 10: 0753812878
ISBN 13: 9780753812877
Book Overview: Based on first-hand research, including interviews with Rosa Parks and access to her archives and papers. First biography of Rosa Parks - hailed by Time in 1999 as one of the hundred most significant individuals of the century, and there were plaudits from the Pope, Nelson Mandela and others Nelson Mandela on Rosa Parks: 'Before King there was Rosa Parks. She is who inspired us, who taught us to sit down for our rights, to be fearless when facing our oppressors.' 'Brinkley manages to prise away the layers of myth and, in doing so, he restores Parks's humanity...the best thing about Brinkley's biography is in showing Parks's human face' Scotsman 'Douglas Brinkley's fine biography of this decorous and determined woman, who was an inspiration to both Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan, is also the story of her times; a shameful era in America's history that Parks helped to bring to a close' Times

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Douglas Brinkley is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Orleans. The author of several books, he has been called by Stephen Ambrose the best of the new generation of American historians.'

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