Perspective
Jul. 13, 2013
A quiet, mild-mannered, fierce, determined activist
"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" takes the reader out of the clichéd view of Parks as the quiet seamstress, and reveals a complicated political thinker and strategist. By Elaine Elinson
I finished reading "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" by Jeanne Theoharis on the day the U.S. Supreme Court - in the words of veteran civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis - stuck a dagger into the heart of the Voting Rights Act. It made that ruling even more difficult to bear. After being immersed in Theoharis' beautifully rendered biography, I was reminded me of just how many people - Rosa Parks among them - put their sweat...
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