Bookstock 2013 Presents: Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" - July 27,2013
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Keynote 1: Jeanne Theoharis
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis, author or coauthor of six books and numerous articles on the black freedom struggle and the contemporary politics of race in the United States, speaks about the life of Rosa Parks and examines her six decades of activism. Ms. Theoharis shows that, contrary to popular belief, Mrs. Parks’s best known act—her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger—was not an isolated incident but a deliberate expression of her lifelong work for civil rights.
Jeanne Theoharis is professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and the author of the new biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Other books by Professor Theoharis include Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South and Our Schools Suck: Young People Talk Back to a Segregated Nation about the Failures of Urban Education. She received her A.B. from Harvard University in Afro-American Studies and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in American Culture. She is also co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis, author or coauthor of six books and numerous articles on the black freedom struggle and the contemporary politics of race in the United States, speaks about the life of Rosa Parks and examines her six decades of activism. Ms. Theoharis shows that, contrary to popular belief, Mrs. Parks’s best known act—her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger—was not an isolated incident but a deliberate expression of her lifelong work for civil rights.
Jeanne Theoharis is professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and the author of the new biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Other books by Professor Theoharis include Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South and Our Schools Suck: Young People Talk Back to a Segregated Nation about the Failures of Urban Education. She received her A.B. from Harvard University in Afro-American Studies and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in American Culture. She is also co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties.
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