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Author:

Reyburn, Susan, author.

Title:

Rosa Parks : in her own words / Susan Reyburn ; with a foreword by Carla D. Hayden, Librarian of Congress.

Publisher:

The University of Georgia Pressin association with The Library of Congress,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 82 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimilies ; 21 cm

Subject:

Parks, Rosa,--1913-2005.
African American women--Biography.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
Women--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Hayden, Carla Diane, 1952- writer of foreword.

Notes:

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"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."--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0820356921
9780820356921

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1099199105

LCCN:

2019947019

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

VWPC964 -- Calmar Public Library (Calmar)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)