The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in.Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 360 pp.
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.Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLCGive it purpose—fill it with books, DVDs, clothes, electronics, and more.There's a problem previewing your cart right now. This is the central theme of Jeanne Theoharis's biography, which should forever put to rest the misperception that this formidable activist was merely too tired after a long day's work to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
There were no letters to consult; even her autobiography exposed little of the woman’s personality. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Jeanne Theoharis Limited preview - 2015. This is the central theme of Jeanne Theoharis's biography, which should forever put to rest the misperception that this formidable activist was merely too tired after a long day's work to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. The author successfully goes “behind the icon of Rosa Parks to excavate and examine the scope of her political life.”
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While her refusal wasn’t planned in advance, the bus boycott was no spontaneous action.
In our entry in the blog tour, our executive editor Gayatri Patnaik interviews Jeanne Theoharis, author of the 2014 NAACP Image Award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
It was ideal for the classroom: smart, brisk, and engaging.
“Jeanne Theoharis has written an eye-opening biography of Rosa Parks. 320. Beacon Press, 9780807076927, 336pp. Parks continued to work for equality after she and her husband moved to Detroit, where racism was as bad, if not worse, as that in the South. She hid her light under a bushel, and it has taken an astute author to find the real Parks.Doyle offers another lucid, inspiring chronicle of female empowerment and the rewards of self-awareness and renewal.© Copyright 2020 Kirkus Media LLC.
I will assign this book again and again.” Get this from a library! Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting about Emmett Till days before her refusal to give up her seat on the bus.Design elements by Lauren Cooper.The Montgomery Bus Boycott is one of the most powerful examples of organizing and social change in U.S. history.© 2020 Zinn Education ProjectPresenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress performed a single act that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and birthed the modern Civil Rights Movement, Jeanne Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’ politics and decades of activism.
She was born to...If You’ve Purchased Author ServicesWe’re glad you found a book that interests you!A splendid life of an enlightened reactionary and forgotten Founding Father.We can’t wait for you to join Kirkus!Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since 1933. Books Division.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis is the definitive political biography of Rosa Parks which examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement. In our entry in the blog tour, our executive editor Gayatri Patnaik interviews Jeanne Theoharis, author of the 2014 NAACP Image Award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
That, in turn, united the black population, which had been deeply divided by class and education.