CSPAN2 Book TV December 12, 2010
>> for just over an hour. >> good evening, everyone. i'm bill starr, executive directer of the georgia center for the book, ask we are the host -- and we are the host for this evening's program. we welcome all of you. rosa parks is one of the truly iconic figures of the civil rights movement. we know her as the older, quiet woman whose tired feet led her to defy segregation on montgomery, alabama's buses back in 1955. her courageous, spontaneous refusal to give up up her seat to a white man sparked the boycott which gave birth to an entire movement. that's what we've been told up til...