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Adapted for young people from the NAACP Image Award–winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert shatter the myths that Parks was meek, accidental, tired, or middle class. They reveal a lifelong freedom fighter whose activism began two decades before her historic stand that sparked the Montgomery bus The original text is fully adapted by Theoharis and the award-winning young adult author Brandy Colbert, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include archival images and personal papers of Rosa Parks, and to provide the necessary historical context to bring the multi-faceted, decades-long Civil Rights Movement to life. [Publisher’s The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks is the most effective tool I have ever used to deepen my students’ understanding of her life—the real Rosa Parks was a racial justice activist in the North and the South; an organizer against lynching and sexual assault; a mentor who empowered young people to become change makers. My students couldn She shows readers how the movement radically 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 and how Rosa Parks was a key player throughout.The original text is fully adapted by the award-winning young adult author Brandy Colbert, for middle Adapted for young people from the NAACP Image Award–winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert shatter the myths that Parks was meek, accidental, tired, or middle class. They reveal a lifelong freedom fighter whose activism began two decades before her historic stand that sparked the Montgomery bus "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 original text is fully adapted by the award-winning young adult author Brandy Colbert, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include archival images and personal papers of Rosa Parks, and to provide the necessary historical context to bring the multi-faceted, decades long civil rights movement to life. Parks placed her greatest hope in young people — in their vision, resolve, and boldness to take the struggle forward. As a young adult, she discovered Black history, and it sustained her across her life. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks will help do that for a new generation. Also by this author: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Adapted for Young People), The Voting Booth. Publisher's Synopsis: This biography examines Parks's life and 60 years of activism and brings the multifaceted, decades-long civil rights movement in the North and South to life for young readers. Rosa Parks placed her greatest hope in young people—in their vision, resolve, and boldness to take the struggle forward. As a young adult, she discovered Black history, and it sustained her across her life. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks will help do that for a new generation. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave. Rosa Parks was a devout Christian. Quote: "I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people." -- Rosa Parks (See more quotes) # Rosa Parks: The Mother of Civil Rights # Rosa's Story Rosa often worked as a seamstress when she needed a job or to make some extra money. You can visit the actual bus that Rosa Parks sat in at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. When she lived in Detroit, she worked as a secretary for U.S. Representative John Conyers for many years. She wrote an autobiography called Rosa Parks: My Story in 1992 On Jan. 11, 2021, the Zinn Education Project hosted a Teach the Black Freedom Struggle people’s history class with Professor Jeanne Theoharis, who spoke with high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian about the new young adult book on Rosa Parks. 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 More information about Kennedy’s work, quotes from Parks, and advice for how kids can use similar techniques is also included in the Library’s family activity kit, Remembering Rosa Parks. Although Rosa and her husband Raymond Parks had no children of their own, children were a significant part of Rosa Parks’s life. She was a beloved aunt Despite the wealth of children’s books on Parks, Douglas Brinkley’ s pocket-sized biography Rosa Parks: A Life and Parks’ own young-adult-focused autobiography with Jim Haskins Rosa Parks: My Story are the only, more detailed treatments of her life and politics.[x] With scholarly treatments of Abraham Lincoln numbering over a hundred and Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the "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
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