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Author:   Jeanne Theoharis ,  Brandy Colbert
Publisher:   Beacon Press
Imprint:   Beacon Press
Edition:   Young Readers Edition
ISBN:  

9780807067574

ISBN 10:   0807067571
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   02 February 2021
Recommended Age:   From 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE A (Shy) Rebel Is Born CHAPTER TWO Following Rules and Breaking Some Too CHAPTER THREE Introducing Raymond Parks—“The First Real Activist I Ever Met” CHAPTER FOUR The Newest Member of the NAACP CHAPTER FIVE Organizing in the Face of Opposition CHAPTER SIX The NAACP Youth Council Gets a Fresh Start CHAPTER SEVEN Resistance + Anger = Seeds of Change CHAPTER EIGHT Claudette Colvin Sits Down (and Rises Up) CHAPTER NINE Highlander Folk School CHAPTER TEN Seeking Justice for Emmett Till CHAPTER ELEVEN December 1, 1955 CHAPTER TWELVE A Boycott Blossoms CHAPTER THIRTEEN Rosa Parks Goes to Court CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Yearlong Boycott CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Best of Times and the Worst of Times CHAPTER SIXTEEN Victory at Last (but the Struggle Continues) CHAPTER SEVENTEEN “The Northern Promised Land That Wasn’t” CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Rosa Parks Joins the Fight Up North CHAPTER NINETEEN The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom CHAPTER TWENTY Working for John Conyers CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Meeting Malcolm X CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Going (Back) Down South CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Detroit Uprising CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The Assassination of Dr. King CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Black Power! CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX “Freedom Fighters Never Retire” CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The Struggle Continues Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Image Credits Index About the Author About the Adapter

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To truly honor Mrs. Rosa Parks is to set the record straight. She was not an accidental heroine or just a tired old lady; she was a lifelong rebellious freedom fighter in every sense of the word. Theoharis has captured the beauty and complexity of Mrs. Parks's life. Deeply researched and engaging, this rich chronicle of Mrs. Parks's life is a page-turner for adults and youth alike. Theoharis and Colbert have told Mrs. Parks's life with so much love, care, and truth telling. Bravo! --Bettina L. Love, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Author Information

Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of City University of New York and the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements and the contemporary politics of race in the US. Her books include The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (winner of a 2014 NAACP Image Award) and A More Beautiful and Terrible History (winner of the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Nonfiction). Connect with her on Twitter (@JeanneTheoharis). Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of several books for children and teens, including The Only Black Girls in Town, The Voting Booth, and the Stonewall Book Award winner Little & Lion. She is the cowriter of Misty Copeland's Life in Motion young readers' edition. Her books have been chosen as Junior Library Guild selections and have appeared on many best-of lists, including the American Library Association's Best Fiction for Young Adults. She is on faculty at Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children and lives in Los Angeles.

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