Recent Reads: Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Ignited a Movement

Source: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This in no way alters my opinion or review.

Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Ignited a Movement
Series: Hourly History
Publisher:  Hourly History 
Publication Date:  May 16, 2017

 

Format: Ebook

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Goodreads Synopsis: 

Rosa Parks was a quiet, dignified African-American woman who, in a world of injustice, decided to politely defy a racist policy. In doing so, she ignited a fire in the soul of a community whose “cup of endurance” would permit not even one more comparatively small injustice. Her case resulted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott wherein some 40,000 African-Americans crippled the Montgomery transportation industry with their non-violent protest of the racist policy that mandated Parks to give up her seat for white riders. But, as an unknown black minister was who elected to lead the boycott protest, one Martin Luther King, Jr., noted, it wasn’t just the bus policy the African-American community was protesting, it was over 100 years of horrific injustice heaped upon a community whose founders had been forcibly brought to the United States. 

Review: 
I am happy to say that this Hourly History was about a hour of reading and I learned a great deal about Rosa Parks and the movements that I did not know. This short book has a lot of information packed into it and covers a good amount of the lead up to Rosa Parks and why she decided to take action. 

Going into this book, I did not know too much about Rosa Parks. Everyone has probably heard the name and knows what she did, she decided not to give up a seat on a bus, but I had no idea what took place after that action or what lead up to it. This book covers a part of American history that I have not covered in a very long time and it was a wonderful refresher. 

The book was very well written and I think younger readers as well as adults could both learn something from it and utilize it as a resource. There is no age group indicated online that I can locate, but I think this would be a beneficial read for all ages and it is concise enough for all reading types. A great book, I look forward to follow it up with others in the Hourly History series when I am able.