The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

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Beacon Press, 2013 M01 29 - 336 páginas

2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography

2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians 

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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 movement

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.

 

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The Passing
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Rosa Parks
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CHAPTER TWO It Was Very Difficult to Keep Going When All
CHAPTER THREE I Had Been Pushed As Far As I Could Stand to
Rosa
Mrs Parks
Negotiating the Politics
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
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Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She received an A.B. in Afro-American studies from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in American culture from the University of Michigan. She is the author or coauthor of six books and numerous articles on the black freedom struggle and the contemporary politics of race in the United States

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TítuloThe Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
AutorJeanne Theoharis
EditorBeacon Press, 2013
ISBN0807050482, 9780807050484
Largo336 páginas
  
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