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In The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks Young Readers’ Edition authors Jeanne Theoharis, PhD, and Brandy Colbert provide us with an in-depth look at one of the movement’s most recognized but narrowly un-derstood activists:–Rosa Parks. Mrs. Rosa Parks’s activism began decades before her refusal to give up her These stories and more are in the young readers’ edition of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Not only do young people find the book a gripping read, they also realize how egregious it is to, as Jeanne Theoharis says, “freeze Rosa Parks on the bus.” 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. And for all of us who want to teach honestly about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement, this is an essential resource.” —Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor, Rethinking Schools, and co-director, Zinn Education Project “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks offers young readers a detailed exploration of an iconic freedom fighter. In 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 M 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. 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. 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 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. 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 "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 eBook - 2021. This definitive biography of Rosa Parks accessibly examines her six decades of activism, challenging young readers perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement. Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress performed a single act that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and birthed the modern 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 Mercy Now adapted for readers ages 12 and up, the award 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 The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Young Readers Edition) by Jeanne Theoharis, 2021, Beacon Press edition, in English Rosa Parks is one of the most well-known Americans today, but much of what is known and taught about her is incomplete, distorted, and just plain wrong. In this young readers' edition of the NAACP Image Award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis shatters the myths that Parks was meek, accidental, tired, or middle 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 "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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