The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (10th Anniversary Edition)

“The Rosa Parks in this book is as much Malcolm X as she is Martin Luther King Jr.”
—Charles Blow, The New York Times

“Jeanne Theoharis gives us the gift of a fully human Rosa Parks, who studied, organized, loved, struggled, and stayed committed to freedom her entire life. This Rosa, the person not the myth, offers current organizers a tangible model for both engaging with and being part of our communities in authentic ways. This is a gift to movement building in our generation.”
—Mariame Kaba, organizer and educator, Interrupting Criminalization

“Richly informative, calmly passionate and much needed.”
—Nell Irvin Painter, The New York Times Book Review

“In the first sweeping history of Parks’s life, Theoharis shows us . . . [that] Parks not only sat down on the bus; she stood on the right side of justice for her entire life.”
—Julian Bond, chairman emeritus, NAACP

“The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks will undoubtedly be hailed as one of the most important scholarly contributions to civil rights history ever written.”
—Melissa Harris-Perry, former host, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry

“Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!”
—Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks