A rosa parks biography book review

There are numerous books on Rosa Parks, and it comes with good reason, she was an American activist in the civil rights movement that played an especially pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.

“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true.

I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day,” she wrote in My Story.

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I was impressed by the amount of information presented in the book.

In addition to providing an engaging narrative of Rosa Parks' life, My Story also includes personal photographs from throughout her lifetime.

In this straightforward, compelling autobiography, Rosa Parks talks candidly about the civil rights movement and her active role in it.

The book is striking for what it is: a biography about Rosa Parks, a person who few have deeply examined, despite the importance of her contributions.

“I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

In order to get to the bottom of what inspired one of the civil rights movement’s most consequential figures to the heights of societal contribution, we’ve compiled a list of the 10 best books on Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks is best known for the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, A