Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2013
978-0-8070-5048-4 (ISBN)
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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 soughtfor more than a half a centuryto expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
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Jeanne Theoharis
The Rebellious Life Of Mrs. Rosa Parks
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01/2013
Beacon Press
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