Jeanne Theoharis
Jeanne Theoharis is an American political scientist and historian whose work examines U.S. civil rights history, racial inequality, and the Black freedom struggle. She is best known for The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and A More Beautiful and Terrible History; The Rebellious Life won an NAACP Image Award.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Jeanne Theoharis has built her career as a scholar who treats history not as a settled national story but as a site of argument, recovery, and public responsibility. Educated at Harvard University and then at the University of Michigan, where she earned a Ph.D. in American Culture, she later joined Brooklyn College and rose to become a Distinguished Professor, while also serving at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her student years already hinted at the shape of her later work: as a Harvard senior in 1991, she was publicly involved in organizing around faculty diversity, a women’s center, and labor issues, suggesting an early commitment to linking scholarship with civic dissent. ((https://www.brooklyn.edu/bc-news/jeanne-theoharis-named-cuny-distinguished-professor-of-political-science/))
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Uncover the true story of Rosa Parks, a lifelong activist who fought tirelessly against racial injustice beyond her famous bus protest.
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
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Challenging civil rights myths, highlighting women and young leaders, and the true struggle for justice.
Bedtime Biography
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Uncover the true story of Rosa Parks, a lifelong activist who fought tirelessly against racial injustice beyond her famous bus protest.
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
Jeanne Theoharis
Challenging civil rights myths, highlighting women and young leaders, and the true struggle for justice.
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Voci della Community
"Jeanne Theoharis is one of our nation’s finest civil rights scholars"
— Bryan Stevenson
"Jeanne Theoharis’s Rosa Parks is a pedagogical gift"
— Peniel E. Joseph
"Just when you thought you knew everything about MLK, Jeanne Theoharis comes along and proves you wrong"
— Lerone A. Martin
"Jeanne Theoharis has written an eye-opening biography of Rosa Parks"
— Thomas J. Sugrue
"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"
— Mariame Kaba
"Jeanne Theoharis redirects our collective gaze from the racial regime of the South to his time in the North"
— Noliwe Rooks
"Jeanne Theoharis has written an engaging book that challenges students’ preconceptions about the Civil Rights Movement"
— Tomás F. Summers Sandoval, Jr
"In A More Beautiful and Terrible History, Jeanne Theoharis debunks nearly a dozen national fables"
— Khalil Muhammad
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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