"In this young readers' edition of the NAACP Image Award--winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis shatters the myths that Parks was meek, accidental, tired, or middle class."
"Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieux of women s lives in Alabama.Fe ..."
"2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Auto Biography 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013 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 q ..."
"Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieux of women s lives in Alabama.Fe ..."
"Rosa Parks, transcripts of interviews with Jim Haskins, 1988, Box 40, Folder 2,
JHC. In the James Haskins Collection, on file at Boston University, there are
portions of unedited interview transcripts and one tape from his interviews with
Parks. This is ... Parks, My Story, 34. 31. Ibid., 33. 32. Interview with Rosa Parks,
Rosa Parks File, Box 2, File 7, GMP. 33. Parks, My Story, 53–54. 34. “Race Urged
to Keep Faith in its Fight,” ..."
"40. Jim Cleaver, “An Overdue Tribute to a Gallant Lady,” Los Angeles Sentinel,
August 17,1978. 41. “Sculpture ofCivil Rights Heroine Rosa 24, 2005. 53.
Norman, author interview. 54. Martha Norman Noonan,. Parks Unveiled,” Jet,
March 18, ..."
"After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the accepted narrative of the movement and peripheral to debates on how to research, document, and teach about the movement. This collection of original works refocuses attention on this bottom-up history and compels a rethinking of what and who we think is central to the movement.The e ..."
"From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North A ..."
Our Schools Suck Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education (Hardcover) by Gaston Alonso, JeanneTheoharis, Celina Su, Noel S. Anderson Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2009 by New York University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8307-8, ISBN: 0-8147-8307-4
""Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures like Bill Cosby have shifted attention away from the persistence of school segregation to lambaste the values of young people themselves. Our Schools Suck forceful ..."
Groundwork Local Black Freedom Movements in America by JeanneTheoharis, Komozi Woodard 344 Pages, Published 2005 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8345-0, ISBN: 0-8147-8345-7
"... interview of Ellen Jackson, on file at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute,
35. 67. Black activists have been criticized in works like Alan Lupo's Liberty's
Chosen Home for focusing their efforts solely within the city, another example of
how scholars have ignored the larger movement around Boston's desegregation.
68. Batson left the directorship of METCO in 1969 because of her husband's
diminishing health. John Batson ..."
"Museums have become ground zero in America's culture wars. Whereas fierce public debates once centered on provocative work by upstart artists, the scrutiny has now expanded to mainstream cultural institutions and the ideas they present. In Displays of Power, Steven Dubin, whose "Arresting Images" was deemed "masterly" by the "New York Times," examines the most controversial exhibitions of the 1990s. These include shows about ethnicity, ..."
"Whether in popular culture, academic research, or public consciousness, African American women are often defined by their presumed poverty or lack of education. In this unique antidote to public perception, Kathleen F. Slevin and C. Ray Wingrove focus on the experiences of an unusual group of pioneers: one of the first generations of African American women to work as white-collar professionals, retire in considerable comfort, and remain ..."
"Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them. As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book, the justifications for stigmatizing single-parent families are founded largely on myths, myths used to rationalize harshly punitive soci ..."