The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

a book

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Jeanne Theoharis · 2013 · 543 pages

When Rosa Parks died in October 2005, she was the first woman and just the second African American to lay in honor at the nation's capital. Yet much of the memorialization reduced her contribution to a single act on a bus one long-ago December evening.

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