I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.

The Rosa Parks Story.

Rosa Parks is worldwide.

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.