The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Title
The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Author
Theoharis, Jeanne author.

ISBN
9780807050477

Publication Information
Boston : Beacon Press, c2013.

Physical Description
xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents
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.

Personal Subject
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.

Subject Term
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.

Geographic Term
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.
 
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.

Summary
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.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)921 PARKSNonfiction Collection
Oakdale Library921 PARKSNonfiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)921 PARKSChecked Out
Stillwater Public Library323.092 THENonfiction Collection