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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.

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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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It is a faith that requires people to act in the world
-The Rosa Parks Papers
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The civil rights movement was deeply unpopular at the time
-Don’t Forget That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Once Denounced as an Extremist
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They criticized, monitored, demonized and at times criminalized those who challenged the way things were, making dissent very costly
-Don’t Forget That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Once Denounced as an Extremist
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These words trap her
-You Still Don't Know the Whole Rosa Parks Story
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But Rosa Parks at the end of her life was saying there’s still more work to be done
-You Still Don't Know the Whole Rosa Parks Story
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A lifetime of more than sixty years of political activism was reduced to a 'singular act' on a long-ago winter day
-A Life History of Being Rebellious
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A considered look at Parks’s life reveals a 'life history of being rebellious,' as she liked to explain it
-A Life History of Being Rebellious

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"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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