The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis

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n2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography / Auto Biography n n2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians n nChoice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013 n nThe definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movementn nPresenting 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.n