The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks Author:Jeanne Theoharis 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 movementPresenting 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 reveali... more »ng window into Parks?s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical 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.« less