Reminiscences of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks : oral history, 1978.

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Reminiscences of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks : oral history, 1978.

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Childhood in Pine Level, Alabama; family background, marriage; events leading to the Montgomery bus boycott, 1955; move from Alabama to Detroit, Michigan; views on integration.

Transcript: 15 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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