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Author Theoharis, Jeanne.

Title The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2013]
©2013

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 Moore Stacks  F334.M753 P3883 2013b    Available  ---
Description xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-295) and index.
Contents National honor, public mythology : the passing of Rosa Parks -- "A life history of being rebellious" : the early years of Rosa McCauley Parks -- "It was very difficult to keep going when all our work seemed to be in vain" : the Civil Rights movement before the Bus Boycott -- "I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed" : Rosa Parks's bus stand -- "There lived a great people" : the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- "It is fine to be a heroine but the price is high" : the suffering of Rosa Parks -- "The Northern promised land that wasn't" : Rosa Parks and the Black Freedom struggle in Detroit -- "Any move to show we are dissatisfied" : Mrs. Parks in the Black Power era -- "Racism is still alive" : negotiating the politics of being a symbol.
Summary 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.
Provenance Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
African American women civil rights workers.
Alabama -- Montgomery.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
Civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation in transportation.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780807050477 hardcover alkaline paper
0807050474 hardcover alkaline paper
9780807050484 electronic
0807050482 electronic
0807033324
9780807033326

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