"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."-- Provided by publisher
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Jeanne Theoharis is a political science professor whose work centers on the black freedom struggle and the contemporary politics of race in the United States. Her scholarship delves deeply into the historical and present-day dimensions of racial issues within American society. Theoharis approaches her subject with analytical rigor, uncovering the intricate connections between past and present in the fight for racial justice. Her research illuminates pivotal moments and strategies employed in the pursuit of Black liberation.

- 2021