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This book captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it. It examines the entire scope of Rosa Parks's life, from her birth in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to her 1943 enrollment in the Montgomery NAACP to the dramatic events of the 1960s, and her continuing work up to her death in 2005. Each chapter provides an exploration of a period in Parks's life, portraying the people, places, and events that shaped and were...
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"From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designed to relegate them to second-class citizenship, was neither legitimate nor permanent. Drawing on shared memories of fluid race relations and post-Civil War political participation, they remained committed to a disciplined and sustained pursuit of equality. Defying Jim Crow tells the story of this community's...
544) Meet Rosa Parks
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Profiles the African American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a bus boycott.
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Thurgood Marshall turned a law school rejection based on his race into a passion for ending our nation s policy of separate but equal. He was on the legal team that won the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case and used that victory as a precedent to topple other racial barriers. He furthered racial reforms after being named our nation s first black Supreme Court justice. Bibliography, Black-and-White Photographs, Full-Color Photographs,...
550) Rosa Parks
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A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
553) Rosa Parks
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Pequeño and grande volume 28
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Rosa Parks fue una activista y una de las figuras más importantes del movimiento por los derechos civiles de Estados Unidos. A los treinta años, se convirtió en líder de la Asociación Nacional para el Progreso de las Personas de Color (NAACP) en Montgomery y comenzó a trabajar para acabar con la desigualdad. A los cuarenta y dos, fue detenida y encarcelada porque se negó a cederle el asiento en un autobús a una persona blanca. Su detención...
554) Rosa Parks
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A biography of the black woman sometimes known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement for her part in precipitating the Montgomery bus boycott.
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"Brown v. Board of Education is widely recognized as one of the US Supreme Court's most important decisions in the twentieth century. Robert H. Jackson, an associate justice on the case, is generally considered one of the Court's most gifted writers. Though much has been written about Brown, citing the writing and remarks of the justices who participated in the 1954 decision, comparatively little has been said about Jackson or his unpublished opinion,...
558) Rosa Parks
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"Introduces readers to Rosa Parks and describes how she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus and became an icon of the American civil rights movement.
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"I have learned what suffering means. In a way that was impossible, I think I can understand something of the pain black people have come to endure. I know I contributed to that pain, and I can only ask your forgiveness." George Wallace made an unannounced speech at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1979, where Martin Luther King was once pastor. The Reverend Joseph Lowery, the 'dean' of the civil rights movement, thanked...
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