02400cam a2200361 4500 129153044 TxAuBib 20130227120000.0 120816s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012031992 9780807033326 0807033324 9780807050477 hbk. : alk. paper $27.95 0807050474 hbk. : alk. paper $27.95 DLC eng DLC IG# BTCTA YDXCP IAD JAI UPZ MOF IEB LF3 EJ4 ABG SPP TxAuBib Theoharis, Jeanne. The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis. Hardcover - white spine with picture at the top. Boston : Beacon Press, 2013. xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. National honor, public mythology : the passing of Rosa Parks -- "A life history of being rebellious" : the early years of Rosa McCauley Parks -- "It was very difficult to keep going when all our work seemed to be in vain" : the Civil Rights movement before the Bus Boycott -- "I had been pushed as fas as I could stand to be pushed" : Rosa Parks's bus stand -- "There lived a great people" : the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- "It is fine to be a heroine but the price is high" : the suffering of Rosa Parks -- "The Northern promised land that wasn't" : Rosa Parks and the Black Freedom struggle in Detroit -- "Any move to show we are dissatisfied" : Mrs. Parks in the Black Power era -- "Racism is still alive" : negotiating the politics of being a symbol. 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. 20130227. Parks, Rosa 1913-2005. African Americans Civil rights Alabama Montgomery History 20th century. African American women civil rights workers Alabama Montgomery Biography. Civil rights workers Alabama Montgomery Biography. Segregation in transportation Alabama Montgomery History 20th century. Montgomery (Ala) Race relations. Montgomery (Ala) Biography. TXMLR