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NotesINTRODUCTION: THE NORTH AND SOUTH OFTEMPERAMENT1. Montgomery, Alabama. December 1,1955: For an excellent biography of RosaParks, see Douglas Brinkley, Rosa Parks: ALife (New York: Penguin, 2000). Most ofthe material in Quiet about Parks is drawnfrom this work.A note about Parks: Some have questionedthe singularity of her actions, pointingout that she’d had plenty of civil rightstraining before boarding that bus. Whilethis is true, there’s no evidence, accordingto Brinkley, that Parks acted in a premeditatedmanner that evening, or even as anactivist; she was simply being herself. Moreimportant for Quiet’s purposes, her
781/929personality did not prevent her from beingpowerful; on the contrary, it made her anatural at nonviolent resistance.2. “north and south of temperament”: WinifredGallagher (quoting J. D. Higley), “HowWe Become What We Are,” The AtlanticMonthly, September 1994. (Higley was talkingabout boldness and inhibition, not extroversionand introversion per se, but theconcepts overlap in many ways.)3. governs how likely we are to exercise:Robert M. Stelmack, “On Personality andArousal: A Historical Perspective onEysenck and Zuckerman,” in Marvin Zuckermanand Robert M. Stelmack, eds., On thePsychobiology of Personality: Essays in Honorof Marvin Zuckerman (San Diego: Elsevier,2004), 22. See also Caroline Davis et al.,“Motivations to Exercise as a Function ofPersonality Characteristics, Age, andGender,” Personality and Individual Differences19, no. 2 (1995): 165–74.
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INTRODUCTION: THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF
TEMPERAMENT
1. Montgomery, Alabama. December 1,
1955: For an excellent biography of Rosa
Parks, see Douglas Brinkley, Rosa Parks: A
Life (New York: Penguin, 2000). Most of
the material in Quiet about Parks is drawn
from this work.
A note about Parks: Some have questioned
the singularity of her actions, pointing
out that she’d had plenty of civil rights
training before boarding that bus. While
this is true, there’s no evidence, according
to Brinkley, that Parks acted in a premeditated
manner that evening, or even as an
activist; she was simply being herself. More
important for Quiet’s purposes, her
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