The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Read Online Free
Author: Jeanne Theoharis
Smethurst, Irene Sosa, Robyn Spencer, Kelly Stupple, Celina Su, Patricia Sullivan, Heather Thompson, Patricia Turner, Stephen Ward, Jocelyn Wills, Barbara Winslow, Craig Wilder, and Gary Younge all provided key assistance, inspiration, and support. There would be no book without them.
Numerous archivists assisted with this endeavor. I am particularly grateful to the research staffs at the Library of Congress; Wayne State’s Reuther Library; the Amistad Center at Tulane; the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Boston University, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe; the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and Alabama State College. An AAUW American Fellowship helped fund my research sabbatical, and a Tow Travel Grant enabled me to visit various archives. The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics seminar and a PSC-CUNY grant helped me finish.
In Detroit and Montgomery, many people enabled me to do this research. Thanks go to Dorothy Aldridge, David Ashenfelter, Eleanor Blackwell, Carol Carter, John Entenman, Sherrie Farrell, Alfonzo Hunter, Judge Damon Keith, Keenan Keller, Georgette Norman, Gregory Reed, Howard Robinson, Elaine Steele, Mills Thornton, Penny Weaver, and Danton Wilson. My aunt Susan Artinian provided wonderful support and hospitality.
Numerous people gave generously in interviews, committed to the belief that the political life of the great Rosa Parks merits substantive, scholarly research. I am immeasurably grateful to Barbara Alexander, Leon Atchison, Muhammad Ahmad, William Anderson, Dan Aldridge, Dorothy Dewberry Aldridge, Peter Bailey, General Baker, Julian Bond, Herb Boyd, John Bracey, Jamila Brathwaite, Candie Carawan, John Conyers, Doris Crenshaw, Fred Durhal, Willis Edwards, Nikki Giovanni, Robert and Jean Graetz, Carolyn Green, Nathan Hare, Larry Horwitz, Ericka Huggins, Alfonzo Hunter, Esther Cooper Jackson, Frank Joyce, Judge Damon Keith, Roslyn King, Marian Kramer, Chokwe Lumumba, Rhea McCauley, Martha Prescott Norman Noonan, Jack O’Dell, Gwendolyn Patton, Quill Pettway, Judy Richardson, Howard Robinson, Mildred Roxborough, Adam Shakoor, Sue Thrasher, Ed Vaughn, JoAnn Watson, Loretta White, Vonzie Whitlow, Mabel Williams, and Thomas Williamson.
My students at Brooklyn College supplied tremendous enthusiasm for this project and remind me continually of the importance of this research. A number of student research assistants provided key assistance over the course of the project: Alexander Perkins, Dane Peters, Khalina Houston, Darryl Barney, and Marwa Amer. It is hard to imagine this book without Marwa Amer, who was unstinting in energy, unflagging in insight, and the best research companion a scholar could hope for.
My editor, Gayatri Patnaik, is the definition of excellence—committed to the political biography I wanted to write and to the grace of its prose, and with a font of enthusiasm for this project. This book is vastly better for her efforts, those of the amazing Rachael Marks, Rosalie Wieder, Susan Lumenello, Marcy Barnes, and the careful work of the rest of the staff at Beacon, as well as my wonderful indexer Tara James and proofreaders Athan and Nancy Theoharis.
During the writing of this book, I have been engaged in a contemporary struggle for justice, which began with the case of my former student Fahad Hashmi, challenging the rights violations occurring in the federal judicial system post-9/11. Like Mrs. Parks, my friends and comrades in that struggle demonstrate what it means to be steadfast and undaunted in speaking truth to power. I am particularly grateful to—and thankful for—the Hashmi family, Sally Eberhardt, Laura Rovner, Pardiss Kebriaei, Rawad Guneid, Brian Pickett, Shane Kadidal, Suzanne Hayes, Saadia Toor, Leili Kashani, Sean Maher, Farah Khan, Bill Quigley, Amna Akbar, Vikki Law, and the people who attended the vigils outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York for their work for justice. That struggle profoundly shaped how I would see and
Numerous archivists assisted with this endeavor. I am particularly grateful to the research staffs at the Library of Congress; Wayne State’s Reuther Library; the Amistad Center at Tulane; the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Boston University, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe; the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and Alabama State College. An AAUW American Fellowship helped fund my research sabbatical, and a Tow Travel Grant enabled me to visit various archives. The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics seminar and a PSC-CUNY grant helped me finish.
In Detroit and Montgomery, many people enabled me to do this research. Thanks go to Dorothy Aldridge, David Ashenfelter, Eleanor Blackwell, Carol Carter, John Entenman, Sherrie Farrell, Alfonzo Hunter, Judge Damon Keith, Keenan Keller, Georgette Norman, Gregory Reed, Howard Robinson, Elaine Steele, Mills Thornton, Penny Weaver, and Danton Wilson. My aunt Susan Artinian provided wonderful support and hospitality.
Numerous people gave generously in interviews, committed to the belief that the political life of the great Rosa Parks merits substantive, scholarly research. I am immeasurably grateful to Barbara Alexander, Leon Atchison, Muhammad Ahmad, William Anderson, Dan Aldridge, Dorothy Dewberry Aldridge, Peter Bailey, General Baker, Julian Bond, Herb Boyd, John Bracey, Jamila Brathwaite, Candie Carawan, John Conyers, Doris Crenshaw, Fred Durhal, Willis Edwards, Nikki Giovanni, Robert and Jean Graetz, Carolyn Green, Nathan Hare, Larry Horwitz, Ericka Huggins, Alfonzo Hunter, Esther Cooper Jackson, Frank Joyce, Judge Damon Keith, Roslyn King, Marian Kramer, Chokwe Lumumba, Rhea McCauley, Martha Prescott Norman Noonan, Jack O’Dell, Gwendolyn Patton, Quill Pettway, Judy Richardson, Howard Robinson, Mildred Roxborough, Adam Shakoor, Sue Thrasher, Ed Vaughn, JoAnn Watson, Loretta White, Vonzie Whitlow, Mabel Williams, and Thomas Williamson.
My students at Brooklyn College supplied tremendous enthusiasm for this project and remind me continually of the importance of this research. A number of student research assistants provided key assistance over the course of the project: Alexander Perkins, Dane Peters, Khalina Houston, Darryl Barney, and Marwa Amer. It is hard to imagine this book without Marwa Amer, who was unstinting in energy, unflagging in insight, and the best research companion a scholar could hope for.
My editor, Gayatri Patnaik, is the definition of excellence—committed to the political biography I wanted to write and to the grace of its prose, and with a font of enthusiasm for this project. This book is vastly better for her efforts, those of the amazing Rachael Marks, Rosalie Wieder, Susan Lumenello, Marcy Barnes, and the careful work of the rest of the staff at Beacon, as well as my wonderful indexer Tara James and proofreaders Athan and Nancy Theoharis.
During the writing of this book, I have been engaged in a contemporary struggle for justice, which began with the case of my former student Fahad Hashmi, challenging the rights violations occurring in the federal judicial system post-9/11. Like Mrs. Parks, my friends and comrades in that struggle demonstrate what it means to be steadfast and undaunted in speaking truth to power. I am particularly grateful to—and thankful for—the Hashmi family, Sally Eberhardt, Laura Rovner, Pardiss Kebriaei, Rawad Guneid, Brian Pickett, Shane Kadidal, Suzanne Hayes, Saadia Toor, Leili Kashani, Sean Maher, Farah Khan, Bill Quigley, Amna Akbar, Vikki Law, and the people who attended the vigils outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York for their work for justice. That struggle profoundly shaped how I would see and
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