A quiet catalyst for the civil rights movement

By Elizabeth Taylor and Staff Reports

PUBLISHED: November 6, 2005 at 1:00 AM CST | UPDATED: August 22, 2021 at 8:03 PM CDT

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Rosa Parks: A Life

By Douglas Brinkley

Penguin Lives, 246 pages, $13 paper

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Rosa Parks died Oct. 24, and this eloquent little book about the seamstress whose quiet defiance triggered the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott–and spurred the civil rights movement–reminds us that small actions can change history.

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