Rosa Parks

The Library of Congress has announced the digitization of the Rosa Parks Papers, and they include a series of Books Owned by Parks (huzzah!)

I started up an LL at http://www.librarything.com/profile/RosaParksBooks and added the first few books before work; there are only 46, so I'll finish it up tonight unless somebody wants to have a go at the rest in the meantime (if so, just PM me and I'll give you the password).

Nice catch, Jeremy, and goes right along with LT's Black History Month efforts.

I'm quite curious which books Parks kept and presumably read. I don't think of her as someone who had a determined reading agenda aligned with her civil rights activity, for example.

I read her autobiography and a recent biography recently. Her mother had taught her to read at 3 or 4, and she was a great reader all her life. Unfortunately neither book seems to have devoted a separate section to that.

http://www.librarything.com/author/parksrosa

Fantastic catch, Jeremy.

These are all in now. Many of them are presentation copies; since the LC had imaged the inscriptions, I went ahead and transcribed those into the comments.

Some of those inscriptions give me the shivers.

Great job, Jeremy! The addition of the inscriptions is particularly wonderful, in particular, Fred D. Gray's and Mrs. Vera Pigee's. I think there might be a slight typo in the latter though: "I loe you today ..."

>7 BuiltByBooks: - Thanks, fixed!