Rosa Parks is to set the record straight. This is a must-read for young people hoping to understand the power we all have to make a difference. Parks with extraordinary research, writing, and compassion. Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert have overturned simplistic descriptions of Mrs. Rosa Parks was a powerful, strategic, and dedicated activist whose witness inspired this nation to do things previously thought impossible. The original text is fully adapted by Theoharis and the award-winning young adult author Brandy Colbert, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include archival images and personal papers of Rosa Parks, and to provide the necessary historical context to bring the multi-faceted, decades-long Civil Rights Movement to life. She shows readers how the movement radically sought - for more than a half a century - to expose and eradicate the racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice and how Rosa Parks was a key player throughout. Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress performed a single act that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and birthed the modern Civil Rights Movement, Jeanne Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’ politics and decades of activism. Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor, Rethinking Schools co-director, Zinn Education Project And for all of us who want to teach honestly about Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement, this is an essential resource. Rosa Parks, a fighter for justice who will intrigue and inspire young people. In story after story, Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert breathe life into the rebellious Mrs. Finally, a book about the real Rosa Parks - the Rosa Parks who was a lifelong activist, tireless organizer, and who did so much more than refuse to give up her seat on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

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