The rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks : young readers edition

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Label

The rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks : young readers edition

Title remainder

young readers edition

Statement of responsibility

Jeanne Theoharis

Creator

• Theoharis, Jeanne

Contributor

• Recorded Books, Inc

Subject

• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• BIPOC -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• Black people -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• Civil rights workers -- Alabama | Montgomery -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Electronic books
• Minority groups -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature
• Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
• Segregation in transportation -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama | Montgomery -- Biography | Juvenile literature

Genre

• Electronic books
• Juvenile literature
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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. Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress performed a single act that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and birthed the modern civil rights movement, Jeanne Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks' politics and decades of activism. She shows readers how the movement radically sought--for more than a half a century--to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice and how Rosa Parks was a key player throughout.The original text is fully adapted by the award-winning young adult author Brandy Colbert, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include archival images and personal papers of Rosa Parks, and to provide the necessary historical context to bring the multi-faceted, decades long civil rights movement to life. Colbert creates an engaging and comprehensive narrative centered on Parks' life of activism, to encourage readers not only to question where and who their history comes, but to search for histories beyond the dominant narratives

Member of

• ;, [bk. 3]

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

RECBK

Dewey number

323.092

Index

no index present

LC call number

F334.M753

LC item number

T446 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

;

Series volume

[bk. 3]