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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. 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 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 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-winning biography that examines Rosa Parks’s life and 60 years of radical 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 was indeed a middle aged seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus; yet, this image of her has been frozen in time. Jeanne Theoharis has set out to give people the complete picture of Rosa Parks, a woman who dedicated her life to the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. 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 An older Rosa Parks recounted how her grandmother grew very angry when a young Rosa told her about the brick incident and worried for her safety. Rosa told her grandmother: “I would rather be lynched than live to be mistreated than not be allowed to say ‘I don’t like it.’” Rosa Parks framed the power of speaking back as fundamental. "Later in life she served on the staff of U.S Representative John Conyers." After Raymond died she began the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. Rosa has been presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. Sadly, she died at age 92 in Detroit, Michigan in 2005. Ms. "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 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 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 In 2022, the documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks was released on Peacock; it is the first full-length documentary about Parks. [177] Also that year, a major motion film Bowl Game Armageddon was announced, which will spotlight Rosa Parks and Emmett Till leading up to the 1956 Sugar Bowl and Atlanta riots [178] [166] The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks also came out in a young adult version in 2021. Parks, Rosa, and James Haskins. Rosa Parks; My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992. This autobiography geared toward young adults provides an unparalleled sense of Rosa Parks’s voice and account of her life leading up to and during the boycott. 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 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"A must-read for young people.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just MercyNow adapted for readers ages 12 and up, the award 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 ROSA LOUISE PARKS BIOGRAPHY. Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. Rosa Parks is one of the most well-known U.S. women of the 20th century and yet much of what has been taught about her is narrow, limited, and at times wrong. This is changing thanks to the release in 2021 of the young adult book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and a new film with the same title — both based on the Parks’ biography by Jeanne Theoharis.
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