First published 2001
Rosa Parks boards the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955. When the driver orders her to surrender her seat to a white passenger, she says no. This single act of defiance leads to her arrest and ignites what becomes the American civil rights movement. Parks faces the consequences of her decision as the Montgomery community rallies around her case. The bus boycott that follows tests her resolve and transforms her into a symbol of resistance. Brinkley traces Parks' life through this moment that changed history, revealing the woman behind the movement and the personal cost of standing up for justice.
Genres: biography, history, 20th-century, african-american, american-history
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: historical-fiction, resistance
Setting: Alabama, Montgomery
Period: 1955, 20th-century
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