Books and Manuscripts

Two Titles Signed by Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks to Fellow Montgomery Activist Lucy B. Campbell

My Story
New York: Dial Books, (1992). First edition. 8vo. (viii), 192 pp. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Rosa Parks to her friend and supporter of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Lucy B. Campbell: "3/15/92/Rosa Parks/Love to/Mrs. Campbell." Illustrated with photographic reproductions. Original quarter purple cloth over burgundy paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed, with Lucy and her husband, Alfonso L. Campbell's names written along edges; in original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, worn with loss along panel edges; signed and addressed by Lucy on front and rear paste-down; inscription on front paste-down, likely by Lucy's daughter, "See. p. 139/Lucy & Al in attendance/at Mass Meeting"; inscribed by Lucy on p. 139 above photo illustration, "Al & I were there!"

Together with:

Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, (1994). First edition. Square 12mo. 93, (3) pp. Signed and dated by Rosa Parks on verso of half-title: "4/2/95/Rosa Parks". Original grey paper-covered boards, stamped in silver; all edges trimmed, with Lucy B. Campbell's initials on top edge (LBC), and "Campbell" on fore-edge; signed and addressed by Lucy on front and rear paste-down and front free endpaper.

A distinctive group of two titles signed and inscribed by activist Rosa Parks to her friend and fellow activist Lucy B. Campbell. Lucy, along with her husband Alfonso L. Campbell, were friends with Parks in Montgomery, Alabama, and had known Parks through her work as a seamstress in the community. Parks's arrest on December 1, 1955 for courageously refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus helped spark the 381-day long Montgomery Bus Boycott, of which Lucy and Alfonso were supporters and and among its early organizers. Alfonso served as co-chair of the Montgomery Improvement Association's Transportation Committee, and helped organize the vast network of carpools that circumvented the city's bus lines and sustained the boycott, and Lucy chronicled the events and participant's experiences.