Jeanne Theoharis

This biography examines Parks’s life and 60 years of activism and brings the multifaceted, decades-long civil rights movement in the North and South to life for young readers.

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate;Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.

This biography examines Parks's life and 60 years of activism and brings the multifaceted, decades-long civil rights movement in the North and South to life for young readers.