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    		• Theoharis, Jeanne.
     
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    		• Parks, Rosa,
     
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    		• African American women civil rights workers
     
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    		• Women civil rights workers
     
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    		• Civil rights workers
     
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    		• African Americans -- Civil rights -- History
     
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    		• Segregation in transportation -- History
     
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    		• Montgomery (Ala.)
     
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    		• Montgomery (Ala.)
     
     
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    The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / / Jeanne Theoharis.
     
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    Author: 
    Theoharis, Jeanne.
    Title: 
    The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / / Jeanne Theoharis.
    Publisher: 
    Boston : Beacon Press, c2013.
    Description: 
    xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Summary: 
    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.
    Bibliography Note: 
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-295) and index.
    Contents: 
    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.
    Local Note: 
    ANAC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
    Subject: 
    Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
    African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
    Women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
    Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
    African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.
    Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.
    Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.
    Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
    Catalog Source No.: 
    (OCoLC)ocn793578858
    ISBN: 
    9780807050477 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    0807050474 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    0807033324
    9780807033326
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    F334.M753 P3883 2013bAnacostia39088015664048Checked InRequest Copy
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