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The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
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The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis.
ISBN
9780807050477 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0807050474 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780807050484 (electronic)
0807050482 (electronic)
0807033324
9780807033326
Published
Boston : Beacon Press, c2013.
Physical Description
xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 02, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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