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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Adapted for Young People (ReVisioning History for Young People)
by Jeanne Theoharis, Brandy Colbert
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2021 by Beacon Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6757-4, ISBN: 0-8070-6757-1

"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."






Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser.)
by Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, 1. Sharony Green, 1. Sheena Harris, Wayne Flynt, 1. Rebecca Mcintyre, 1. Caroline Gebhard, Dr Patricia A. Sullivan, Jeanne Theoharis, Christopher D. Haveman, Susan E. Reynolds, Marlene Hunt Rikard, Kimberly D. Hill, Paul Pruitt Jr., Rebecca S. Montgomery, Tina Naremore Jones, Staci Simon Glover, Nancy Grisham Anderson, Jenny Luke
Paperback, 378 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5079-0, ISBN: 0-8203-5079-6

"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 ..."






The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks(Unabridged)
by Jeanne Theoharis, Judith West
Cd, Published 2016 by Audible Studios On Brilliance Audio
Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-5318-1716-9, ISBN: 1-5318-1716-5

"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 ..."






Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser.)
by Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, 1. Sharony Green, 1. Sheena Harris, Wayne Flynt, 1. Rebecca Mcintyre, 1. Caroline Gebhard, Dr Patricia A. Sullivan, Jeanne Theoharis, Christopher D. Haveman, Susan E. Reynolds, Kimberly D. Hill, Paul Pruitt Jr., Rebecca S. Montgomery, Tina Naremore Jones, Staci Simon Glover, Nancy Grisham Anderson, Marlene Hunt Rikard, Jenny Luke
Hardcover, 378 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5078-3, ISBN: 0-8203-5078-8

"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 ..."






The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
336 Pages, Published 2015 by Beacon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7693-4, ISBN: 0-8070-7693-7

"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,” ..."






The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Digital, 273 Pages, Published 2014 by Beacon Press (Ma)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-5048-4, ISBN: 0-8070-5048-2

"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, ..."






The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-299-92219-8, ISBN: 1-299-92219-8






Civil Rights History from the Ground Up
Local Struggles, a National Movement
by Emilye Crosby, Amy Nathan Wright, Charles Payne, Hasan Jeffries, J. Moye, Jeanne Theoharis, Judy Richardson, Laurie B. Green, Robyn C. Spencer, Wesley Hogan, Professor Emeritus John Dittmer, Charles W. Mckinney
Hardcover, 510 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2963-5, ISBN: 0-8203-2963-0

"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 ..."






Working the Diaspora
The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 (Culture, Labor, History)
by Frederick C. Knight, Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne Theoharis
Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 2010 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4818-3, ISBN: 0-8147-4818-X

"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 ..."






Want to Start a Revolution?
Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
by Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, Dayo F. Gore
Encuadernación Desconocida, 368 Pages, Published 2009 by New York Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-3230-4, ISBN: 0-8147-3230-5

"... 88, 100, 141, 207,233, 236, 237,281, 282, 292n22, 323 Chicano power, 27, 231 Childress, Alice, 39, 87, 93n74 China, 2, ... for a Negro Congressman, 253– 254 Citizen's Committee for Justice (CCJ), 61, 63 City-Wide Young People's Forum, 50 ... 274; black freedom struggle, 27, 74; political repression of, 28, 38, 76, 80, 117 Cole, Johnetta, 20n4, 214, 218 Colvin, ... 261 Conyers, John 16, 117, 129, 260 Cooke, Marvel, 31, 33, 44n28 ..."






Want to Start a Revolution?
Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
by Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard
Published 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-3312-7, ISBN: 0-8147-3312-3






Our Schools Suck
Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education (Hardcover)
by Gaston Alonso, Jeanne Theoharis, 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 ..."






Our Schools Suck
Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
by Gaston Alonso, Jeanne Theoharis, Celina Su, Noel Anderson
Published 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-0776-0, ISBN: 0-8147-0776-9






Groundwork
Local Black Freedom Movements in America
by Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard
Published 2005
ISBN-13: 978-1-4356-0044-7, ISBN: 1-4356-0044-4






Groundwork
Local Black Freedom Movements in America
by Jeanne Theoharis, 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 ..."






Displays of Power(Updated)
(with a new afterword): Controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation!
by Steven C. Dubin, Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, Charles Payne
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-1890-2, ISBN: 0-8147-1890-6

"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, ..."






From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones(Updated)
The Life Experiences of Fifty Professional African American Women
by Kathleen F. Slevin, C. Ray Wingrove, Dayo Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard
Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 1998 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8100-5, ISBN: 0-8147-8100-4

"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 ..."






In Defense of Single-Parent Families(Updated)
by Nancy E. Dowd, Dayo Gore, Jeanne Theoharis
Hardcover, 222 Pages, Published 1996 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-1869-8, ISBN: 0-8147-1869-8

"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 ..."






Julian Bond's Time to Teach
A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
by Bond, Julian, Theoharis, Jeanne, Horowitz, Pamela, Newkirk II, Vann R., Lyon, Danny
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2022 by Beacon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-1478-3, ISBN: 0-8070-1478-8






These Yet to Be United States(1st Edition)
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in America Since 1945 (Wadsworth Books on America Since 1945)
by Athan G. Theoharis, Jeanne Theoharisathan Theoharis, Jeanne F. Theoharis
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2002 by Wadsworth Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-506989-3, ISBN: 0-15-506989-6



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