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03567aam a2200553 i 4500 001 5E68CCB0B79E11EB9196081C3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210518010030 008 160216s2015 mauaf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2015487943 020 $a 0807076929 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780807076927 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)904967997 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d WVU $d OCLCF $d LTSCA $d CGP $d OCLCA $d MCT $d OCLCA $d MDK $d OCL $d OCLCO $d ZQP $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-al 050 00 $a F334.M753 $b P3883 2015 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Theoharis, Jeanne, $e author. 245 14 $a The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / $c Jeanne Theoharis. 250 $a Paperback edition. 264 1 $a Boston : $b Beacon Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xxx, 306 pages, 8 pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Contains a new introduction. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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 far 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. 520 $a Presenting a powerful corrective to the popular iconography of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who with a single act birthed the modern civil rights movement, scholar Jeanne Theoharis excavates Parkss political philosophy and six decades of activism. Theoharis masterfully details the political depth of a national heroine who dedicated her life to fighting American inequality and, in the process, resurrects a civil rights movement radical who has been hidden in plain sight far too long. 600 10 $a Parks, Rosa, $d 1913-2005. 600 17 $a Parks, Rosa, $d 1913-2005. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00209244 650 0 $a African American women civil rights workers $z Montgomery $z Montgomery $v Biography. 650 0 $a Civil rights workers $z Montgomery $z Montgomery $v Biography. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $z Montgomery $z Montgomery $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Segregation in transportation $z Montgomery $z Montgomery $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Montgomery (Ala.) $x Race relations. 651 0 $a Montgomery (Ala.) $v Biography. 650 7 $a African American women civil rights workers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799481 650 7 $a African Americans $x Civil rights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799575 650 7 $a Civil rights workers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862721 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 $a Segregation in transportation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111234 651 7 $a Alabama $z Montgomery. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01202689 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210518010432.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E68CCB0B79E11EB9196081C3CECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search