Jeanne Theoharis

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 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

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.
Theoharis, J. (2018). A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7587-6. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
Brian Purnell; Jeanne Theoharis; with Komozi Woodard (2019). The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479820337.

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[]

^ "Brooklyn College - Faculty Profile". cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
^ "The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize". 2017-03-20.
^ "Brooklyn College - Political Science Professor Wins NAACP Image Award for Book on Rosa Parks". cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
^ "Jeanne Theoharis speaks about Rosa Parks book today at Carnegie Mellon". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
^ Beacon Press page on paperback issue
^ "Author Jeanne Theoharis Debunks the Myth of Rosa Parks". rochester.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
^ Jim Higgins. "Milwaukee native Theoharis wins NAACP Image Award for Rosa Parks bio". jsonline.com. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
^ 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.