Our Auntie Rosa

Praise

“Rosa Parks inspired millions of Americans in 1955, including a nine-year-old boy in Arkansas learning about her story. Through the pages of Our Auntie Rosa, her family captures the quiet dignity—and commanding conviction—of one of the civil rights movement’s bravest champions.”
—President Bill Clinton

“For years Mrs. Rosa Parks’s family graciously shared her with the world. Yet the civil rights icon revered as the ‘Mother of the Movement’ was also their beloved ‘Auntie Rosa,’ and with Our Auntie Rosa they are now just as generously sharing their personal memories and photographs to give us all a chance to better know the extraordinary real woman and family whose courage changed history.”
—Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund

“What a joy to discover that Rosa Parks, an international figure and ‘Mother of The Movement,’ was as dignified and heroic a private woman as she was a civil rights icon. This beautiful tribute, lovingly written by family members, completes the picture of a 20th century inspiration. As compelling as what she sat down for on a bus is what she stood for at home.”
—Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The First Phone Call from Heaven
 
“Our Auntie Rosa gives us a glimpse into the private life of an extraordinary woman who played her part in American history with courage, intelligence, and grace. We are inspired by her life and forever grateful to her family for sharing her with us all.”
—Pearl Cleage, author of Things I Should Have Told My Daughter

“Rosa Parks’s bus-sitting was a stand-up call for millions and I was one of them. Yet there was a personal and public price to pay for her undaunted commitment to social justice and her people. Our Auntie Rosa is a powerful new telling and an insightful love note from her ‘daughters and sons’ whom she did not birth biologically, but through cultural and familial bonds they are linked nonetheless. This is a critical and contemplative immersion into their stories of their aunt and is a must-read if we are to accurately understand one of our nation’s most revered women and mother of the civil rights movement.”
—Haki R. Madhubuti, author of YellowBlack

“Our Auntie Rosa is an enjoyable read about an icon shared through stories of family life, legacy, and living that convey Rosa Parks’s unmatched voice and influence on the modern-day civil rights movement.”
—Joyce Beatty, U.S. congresswoman for Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District