The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
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 movementPresenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern...
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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 movementPresenting 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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780807050477 (0807050474)
ASIN: 807050474
Publish date: January 29th 2013
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
African American,
Feminism,
Politics,
American History,
Biography Memoir,
Womens Studies,
Race
This book set out to debunk the myth that Rosa Parks was a onetime activist. This is a definitive examination of Parks’ continued fight for civil rights long before her famous bus ride, and long afterwards, in the face of discrimination, both from whites and black men, in the form of everything from...
This insightful and revealing first full-length biography of Rosa Parks shatters all the myths about her that began with her arrest in Montgomery in 1955. Rosa Parks may have been shy, may not have worn her angry militancy on her sleeve, but she was never apolitical. She was never the accidental act...
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