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The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780807050477 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0807050474 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0807033324
- ISBN: 9780807033326
- Physical Description: xvi, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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