Rosa Parks has become a myth and a legend, the symbol of America’s struggle with civil rights. But little is known of her personal life story. Historian Douglas Brinkley joins Kojo to discuss her long and arduous journey from Tuskeegee Alabama in the nineteen-teens to her life today in twenty-first century Detroit.

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  • Douglas Brinkley Historian; and author of "Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company and a Century of Progress"

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