By the turn of the millennium, the history of the civil rights movement had become a national story. When asked to name a “most famous American” other than a president “from Columbus to today,” high…
Jeanne Theoharis
Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of City University of New York. Theoharis’s New York Times bestselling biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won the 2014 NAACP Image Award and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. Her book, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History is due out from Beacon Press on January 30.
