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Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks “In this book, Jeanne Theoharis gives us the gift of a fully-human Rosa Parks who studied, organized, loved, struggled and stayed committed to freedom her entire life. This Rosa, the person not the Customers find the book provides insight into the life of Rosa Parks. They also say it's packed with history and back stories that show the incredible depth and commitment she showed to civil rights. Readers also say the book offers a compelling look at a woman whose contributions to history have shaped the world. "Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!”—Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks "A must-read for young people.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy Now adapted for readers ages 12 and up, the award About The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (10th Anniversary Edition) “Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!”—Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks “Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa ParksThe NAACP Image Award winning book that has helped redefine the public understanding of the civil rights icon—revealing As with the last book I reviewed, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton, this book tells a story of the rich details about Rosa Parks’s life that most people don’t know. The book covers her life’s story from childhood well beyond her refusing to get up from her seat on the public bus in Montgomery, AL on December 1, 1955. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks rescues Rosa Parks from the mythologies of civil rights lore by instead situating her within the long twentieth-century Black Freedom struggle, both North and South, as an activist and an organizer. Highly accessible and eminently readable, this book is retooling with the next generation of would-be Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks The NAACP Image Award winning book that has helped redefine the public understanding of the civil rights icon—revealing her to be a radical and committed activist “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks will undoubtedly be hailed as one of the most important scholarly contributions to civil rights history ever written.” —Melissa Harris-Perry, former host, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry “Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks will undoubtedly be hailed as one of the most important scholarly contributions to civil rights history ever written. I can’t wait to assign this book in every class I teach.” “The Rosa Parks in this book is as much Malcolm X as she is Martin Luther King Jr.” —Charles Blow, The New York Times “Richly informative, calmly passionate and much needed.” —Nell Irvin Painter, The New York Times Book Rreview "Charisma is not a word often used to describe Rosa Parks yet we have to recognize her star. The Rosa Since April, 13,000 copies of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the young readers’ edition of a book by acclaimed historian Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert, have been shipped to teachers requesting copies to pair with their history or language arts curriculum. Get ready to explore The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and its meaning. Our full analysis and study guide provides an even deeper dive with character analysis and quotes explained to help you discover the complexity and beauty of this book. "Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!”—Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks"A must-read for young people.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just MercyNow adapted for readers ages 12 and up, the award The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, which is based on the bestselling biography by Jeanne Theoharis and executive produced by award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien, corrects the record on Rosa Parks’ often-overlooked accomplishments and the erasure of her radical politics. In short, what we are taught in school about Rosa Parks is a “Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks The NAACP Image Award winning book that has helped redefine the public understanding of the civil rights icon—revealing The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis is a biographical study of the life of Rosa Parks that reveals the ways her activism extended beyond her famous refusal to move on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and the ways that this decision impacted her life. Theoharis explores Parks’s role as a symbol for the civil rights movement "Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!”—Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Richly informative, calmly passionate and much needed, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” completes the portrait of a working-class activist who looked poverty and discrimination 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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-295) and index
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