ROSA PARKS: MY STORY

Parks, Rosa, with Jim Haskins

ISBN 10: 0803706731 / ISBN 13: 9780803706736

Verlag: Dial Books, New York, NY, 1992

Beschreibung

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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 013133

Bibliografische Details

Titel: ROSA PARKS: MY STORY

Verlag: Dial Books, New York, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1992

Einband: Cloth

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: First Edition, First Printing

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe:

The woman whose name is synonymous with the civil rights movement discusses her role in the Montgomery NAACP, her now famous refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man, the Montgomery bus boycott, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Rosa Parks also worked with Jim Haskins to write Rosa Parks: My Story (Dial and Puffin), an award-winning book for older readers. Mrs. Parks was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in June 1999. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.