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
Presenting 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 Parksβs politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical soughtβfor more than a half a centuryβto expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
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