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Jeanne Theoharis

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Nationality
  
American

Genre
  
non-fiction


Notable awards
  
NAACP Image Award

Name
  
Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis wwwbrooklyncunyeduwebfacultypicturejspfacu

Born
  
May 16, 1969 (age 54) (
1969-05-16
)

Occupation
  
Professor of Political Science

Books
  
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Alma mater
  
Harvard University, University of Michigan

Awards
  
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Biography / Auto-biography

Jeanne theoharis 2015 national book festival


Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.

Contents

Her book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, won a 2014 NAACP Image Award and the 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.

Who was rosa parks personal hero historian jeanne theoharis says malcolm x shaped parks outlook


Life

She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of Michigan. Her father is Athan Theoharis.

Works

  • Rosa Parks' Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks
  • Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "MLK Would never shut down a freeway and 6 other myths about the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter"The Root, July 15.
  • Jeanne Theoharis on the Melissa Harris Perry show. http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/does-the-gop-know-the-real-rosa-parks--528884803693
  • Theoharis, Jeanne, Burgin, Say, 2015. "Rosa Parks wasn't Meek, Passive or Naive--and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn't Learn in School,"The Nation, December 1.
  • Marchevsky, Alejandra, and Jeanne Theoharis, 2006. Not working: Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform. NYU Press.
  • Marchevsky, Alejandra, Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform,"  The Nation, March 1.
  • The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Beacon Press. 29 January 2013. ISBN 978-0-8070-5048-4. 
  • Noel S. Anderson; Jeanne Theoharis; Gaston Alonso; Celina Su (1 May 2009). Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education. NYU Press. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-8147-8320-7. 
    • Editor
  • Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard, eds. (1 January 2005). Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8285-9. 
  • Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard, eds. (1 November 2009). Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3230-4. 
  • Jeanne F. Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, eds. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 9780312294687

    • References

    Jeanne Theoharis Wikipedia
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