For many, Rosa Parks’s story began on December 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus — setting off a 381-day boycott of the city bus system. But she was already 42 when she quietly said no to Jim Crow. Douglas Brinkley’s recently reissued Rosa Parks: A Life (Penguin; paperback, $13) describes how Parks, who died in October at the age of 92, got to that definitive point. From her birth in 1913 in a plywood shanty in Tuskegee, Ala., and her education at Miss White’s Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery, Parks was taught, she said, “that I was a person with dignity and self-respect and I should not set my sights lower than anybody just because I was black.”
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The Rosa Parks funeral was a huge big deal in the Detroit Metro area.
I was very proud of son Parker who came home from kindergarten with a very strong impression that Rosa Parks was a great woman. He really got it.
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