{"title":"Books by Jeanne Theoharis","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780807076927","title":"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. 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Theoharis contextualizes this rich material—made available to the public for the very first time and including more than seven thousand documents—and deepens our understanding of Parks’s personal, financial, and political struggles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresenting a powerful corrective to the popular iconography of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who with a single act birthed the modern civil rights movement, scholar Jeanne Theoharis excavates Parks’s political philosophy and six decades of activism. Theoharis masterfully details the political depth of a national heroine who dedicated her life to fighting American inequality and, in the process, resurrects a civil rights movement radical who has been hidden in plain sight far too long.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294842499445,"sku":"9780807076927","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780807076927_a2184a98-efae-4248-b3e3-340f13ce63fd.jpg?v=1786016149"},{"product_id":"9780807020616","title":"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (10th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. 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She not only reveals Parks’s personal, financial, and political struggles, but also highlights the danger of the “quiet seamstress” narrative, especially in an age where civil rights activism can be weaponized against those working for change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresenting a powerful corrective to the popular iconography of Rosa Parks, Theoharis excavates her political philosophy and six decades of activism. By detailing the political depth of a national heroine who dedicated her life to fighting inequality, Theoharis resurrects a civil rights movement radical who has been hidden in plain sight far too long, further showing how Parks and others helped pave the way for future activist organizations.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294949126517,"sku":"9780807020616","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780807020616_b93901e1-588d-40ec-9efb-fcd39c498add.jpg?v=1786016111"},{"product_id":"king-of-the-north","title":"King of the North","description":"A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookShortlisted 2025, Museum of African American History Stone Book AwardFrom the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.    “Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in the North, but battled it from the very beginning of his career.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.   The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and New York Times bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. King of the North follows King as he crisscrosses the country from the Northeast to the West Coast, challenging school segregation, police brutality, housing segregation, and job discrimination. For these efforts, he was relentlessly attacked by white liberals, the media, and the federal government.   In this bold retelling, King emerges as a someone who not only led a movement but who showed up for other people’s struggles; a charismatic speaker who also listened and learned; a Black man who experienced police brutality; a minister who lived with and organized alongside the poor; and a husband who—despite his flaws—depended on Coretta Scott King as an intellectual and political guide in the national fight against racism, poverty, and war.   King of the North speaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today. Just as she restored Rosa Parks’s central place in modern American history, so Theoharis radically expands our understanding of King’s life and work—a vision of justice unfulfilled in the present.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57513445818741,"sku":"9798893851083","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798893851083.jpg?v=1787220200"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jeanne-theoharis.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}