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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

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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.

Activists Civil Rights & Liberties Cultural & Regional Politics & Activism Biographies & Memoirs United States Social justice Politics & Government Americas Women Freedom & Security
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Very well researched. I wish everyone would read it. Great book. This was a 5-star read.

The True Story of Rosa Parks

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