Jeanne Theoharis is the author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks"(Beacon Press, ) and a professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She received an AB in Afro-American studies from Harvard College and a PhD in Cited by: · Quiet, lovely, light-skinned, well-dressed Mrs. Rosa Parks, in her hat and coat and eyeglasses, embodies the nonviolent overthrow of racism in Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Jeanne Theoharis is the author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, ) and a professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She received an AB in Afro-American studies from Harvard College and a PhD in /5().
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis. TABLE OF CONTENTS "Treading the Tightrope of Jim Crow" Scottsboro Boys; Montgomery NAACP; Emmett Till; Highlander Folk School and the criminalization of organizing "Let us Look at Jim Crow for the Criminal He Is". The book covers her life's story from childhood well beyond her refusing to get up from her seat on the public bus in Montgomery, AL on December 1, The reader learns of her early life, her education, family and her up bring by her grandparents, fo. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis. In too many ways, Rosa Parks has always been "hidden in plain sight" (p. ). This is the central theme of Jeanne Theoharis's biography, which should forever put to rest the misperception that this formidable activist was merely too tired after a long day's work to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Presenting 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 revealing window into. The Civil Rights movement may have gained power because of Rosa Parks and Theoharis captures the depth and courage of this one woman from the beginning to the end of her life dedicated to justice and fairness. The biography also reflects inevitably it seems the hypocrisies of political movers and shakers. Jeanne Theoharis is the author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, ) and a professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She received an AB in Afro-American studies from Harvard College and a PhD in American culture from the University of Michigan.
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