The powerful story of Rosa Parks and her act of civil disobedience is so often reduced to just a headline,It’s often easy to forget the three-dimensional person she was.
It was with that in mind that the poet Nikki Giovanni set out to write a different kind of Rosa Parks book. Her 2005 book Rosa is nominally a children’s book, but one that readers of any age will find Illuminating.
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I spoke with Nikki Giovanni about her book just a few weeks after Rosa Parks passed away at age 92.
So here now from 2005 Nikki Giovanni.
Nikki Giovanni died this past December, at age 81.