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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Rosa Parks; Rosa Parks |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Reyburn; Carla Diane Hayden |
ISBN: | 9780820356921 0820356921 |
OCLC Number: | 1099199105 |
Notes: | "A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Page 4 of cover. |
Description: | xi, 82 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Carla D. Hayden -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Early life and activism -- The bus boycott -- Detroit and beyond -- Legacy. |
Responsibility: | Susan Reyburn ; with a foreword by Carla D. Hayden, Librarian of Congress. |
Abstract:
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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