Theoharis, Jeanne.
Boston : Beacon Press, c2013.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references 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.

Subjects:

• 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.

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