Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis
Occupation Professor of Political Science
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University,
University of Michigan
Genre non-fiction
Notable awards NAACP Image Award

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

Her book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, won a 2014 NAACP Image Award[2][3] and the 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.[4]

Life

She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of Michigan.[5] Her father is Athan Theoharis.[6]

Works

Editor

References

  1. "Brooklyn College - Faculty Profile". cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  2. "Brooklyn College - Political Science Professor Wins NAACP Image Award for Book on Rosa Parks". cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  3. "Jeanne Theoharis speaks about Rosa Parks book today at Carnegie Mellon". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  4. Beacon Press page on paperback issue
  5. "Author Jeanne Theoharis Debunks the Myth of Rosa Parks". rochester.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  6. Jim Higgins. "Milwaukee native Theoharis wins NAACP Image Award for Rosa Parks bio". jsonline.com. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  7. 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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