Bedtime Biography: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

An honest and thorough rendering, this award-winning work chronicles the public and personal challenges that came to define the political life of civil-rights activist Rosa Parks. Among other details of her activism, those presented here set the record straight on the personality that sparked the well-known bus boycott, which became a key moment in the civil rights movement.

• Political historians looking to build on the details of this popular icon of the civil rights movement
• People interested in learning about the struggle for equal rights in the United States
• Anyone interested in a reflective and inspiring story

Jeanne Theoharis, PhD, completed her studies at Harvard and the University of Michigan and is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is an expert on the contemporary politics of race in the United States and has written and co-authored several titles on the subject.