PublishedBeacon Press, February 2025 |
ISBN9780807020616 |
FormatSoftcover, 344 pages |
Dimensions22.9cm × 15.2cm |
"Jeanne's book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!" -Soledad O'Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award-winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
The NAACP Image Award winning book that has helped redefine the public understanding of the civil rights icon-revealing her to be a radical and committed activist
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.
