Rosa Parks : In Her Own Words

Susan Reyburn

ISBN 10: 0820356921 / ISBN 13: 9780820356921

Published by University Of Georgia Press Dez 2019, 2019

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Neuware - Until recently, Rosa Parks's personal papers were unavailable to the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rosa Parks : In Her Own Words
• Publisher: University Of Georgia Press Dez 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820356921
• ISBN 13: 9780820356921
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 204W x 203H x 10D millimeters 204 millimeters width by 203 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 266 grams

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Synopsis

Until recently, Rosa Parks’s personal papers were unavailable to the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words illumines her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she came to be the person who stood up by sitting down.

At the height of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as Parks was both pilloried and celebrated, she found a catharsis in her writing. Her precise descriptions of her arrest, the segregated South, and her recollections of childhood resistance to white supremacy document a lifetime of battling inequality. Parks expressed her thoughts on paper using whatever was available―meeting agendas, event programs, drugstore bags. The book features one hundred color and black-and-white photographs from the Parks collection, many appearing in print for the first time, along with ephemera from the long life of a private person in the public eye.

About the Author

SUSAN REYBURN is a senior writer-editor in the Library of Congress Publishing Office. She is the author of Football Nation: Four Hundred Years of America’s Game; Women Who Dare: Amelia Earhart; and Gardens and Landscapes of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; and she is a coauthor of Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress; The Library of Congress World War II Companion; and The Civil War Desk Reference. She has also written for a wide variety of LOC publications on classic American film, theater, art, and architecture, and numerous works for the National Trust for Historic Preservation.