Publisher Description
It wasn’t that long ago that black citizens had to move to the back of the bus. In this stirring collection, NPR tells stories large and small: of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington; of Pullman porters, an invaluable green book, and women who baked pies to support the Montgomery bus boycott. Personal recollections and historical accounts paint vivid pictures of individuals and events that transformed a nation.
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About Michele Norris
Michele Norris, cohost of All Things Considered, is cowinner of
the Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Award for The York Project: Race and the ’08 Vote and was chosen in 2009 as
Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. She
has written for, among other publications, the Washington Post, Chicago
Tribune, and Los Angeles Times.
As a correspondent for ABC News from 1993 to 2002, she earned Emmy and Peabody
awards for her contribution to the network’s 9/11 reporting. She has been a
frequent guest commentator on Meet the
Press, The Chris Matthews Show,
and Charlie Rose. Norris lives in
Washington, DC, with her husband and children.