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@article{Letort2012TheRP,
  title={The Rosa Parks Story: The Making of a Civil Rights Icon},
  author={Delphine Letort},
  journal={Black Camera},
  year={2012},
  volume={3},
  pages={31 - 50},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143860156}
}

The Rosa Parks Story (2002) belongs to the wave of civil rights films that emerged in the 1980s and was dedicated to recounting the fight for desegregation in the southern states. Rosa Parks quickly became an icon of collective resistance by famously refusing to forfeit her seat to a white passenger on board a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. In this made-for-television biopic, director Julie Dash strives to retrace Rosa Parks's personal and political journey to emancipation. This article considers…

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Rosa Parks: A Biography

J. Hanson

History, Sociology

2011

This book offers a revealing look at Rosa Parks, whose role as an activist and struggle with racism began long before her historic 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus ride. * Includes a timeline of…