The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2013.Description: xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0807050474 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807050482 (electronic)
- 9780807050477 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780807050484 (electronic)
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography
- Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations
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Main Library | Biography | Parks, R. T391 | Available | 33111007066414 |
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2014 NAACP Image Award Winner- Outstanding Literary Work - Biography / Auto Biography
2013Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians
Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks's politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought-for more than a half a century-to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks.