The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (OLD EDITION)

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (OLD EDITION)

<p><b>2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography<br><br>2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians <br><br>Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013<br><br><br>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</b></p><p>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.</p>