num_pages: 320
description: 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 movementPresenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who with a single act birthed the modern civil rights movement Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parkss politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical soughtfor more than a half a centuryto expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs schools public services and criminal justice.
language: English
title: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
publisher: Beacon Press