NAACP Image Award Winner Outstanding Literary Work ndash Biography Auto BiographyLetitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women HistoriansChoice Top Academic Titles for 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 movementPresenting 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 Parksrsquos politics and years of activism She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical soughtmdashfor more than a half a centurymdashto expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs schools public services and criminal justice.
