The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2013.Description: xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780807050477 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0807050474 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780807050484 (electronic)
- 0807050482 (electronic)
- 0807033324
- 9780807033326
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography
- Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography
- F334.M753 P3883 2013b
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-295) and index.
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.
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.