Jeanne Theoharis

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Jeanne Theoharis
OccupationProfessor of Political Science
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University,
University of Michigan
Genrenon-fiction
Notable awardsNAACP Image Award

Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.[1]

Her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History; The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Award for Nonfiction.[2] Her book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a 2014 NAACP Image Award[3][4] and the 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.[5]

Life

Theoharis speaks in 2020

She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of Michigan.[6] Her father is Athan Theoharis.[7]

Works

Essays
  • 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.
  • 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.[8]
Books


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References

  1. ^ "Brooklyn College - Faculty Profile". cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  2. ^ "The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize". 2017-03-20.
  3. ^ "Brooklyn College - Political Science Professor Wins NAACP Image Award for Book on Rosa Parks". cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  4. ^ "Jeanne Theoharis speaks about Rosa Parks book today at Carnegie Mellon". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  5. ^ Beacon Press page on paperback issue
  6. ^ "Author Jeanne Theoharis Debunks the Myth of Rosa Parks". rochester.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  7. ^ Jim Higgins. "Milwaukee native Theoharis wins NAACP Image Award for Rosa Parks bio". jsonline.com. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  8. ^ Neil Irving Painter (March 29, 2013). "Mother of the Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 August 2015. Richly informative, calmly passionate and much needed, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" completes the portrait of a working-class activist who looked poverty and discrimination squarely in the face and never stopped rebelling against them, in the segregated South and in the segregated North.

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