INTRODUCTION TO THE 2025 EDITION
Ten Ways to Be Like Rosa Parks in the Age of Black Lives Matter
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2015 EDITION
“Freedom Fighters Never Retire”
INTRODUCTION
National Honor/Public Mythology:
The Passing of Rosa Parks
CHAPTER ONE
“A Life History of Being Rebellious”:
The Early Years of Rosa McCauley Parks
CHAPTER TWO
“It Was Very Difficult to Keep Going When All Our Work Seemed to Be in Vain”:
The Civil Rights Movement before the Bus Boycott
CHAPTER THREE
“I Had Been Pushed As Far As I Could Stand to Be Pushed”:
Rosa Parks’s Bus Stand
CHAPTER FOUR:
“There Lived a Great People”:
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
CHAPTER FIVE
“It Is Fine to Be a Heroine but the Price Is High”:
The Suffering of Rosa Parks
CHAPTER SIX
“The Northern Promised Land That Wasn’t”:
Rosa Parks and the Black Freedom Struggle in Detroit
CHAPTER SEVEN
“Any Move to Show We Are Dissatisfied”:
Mrs. Parks in the Black Power Era
CONCLUSION
“Racism Is Still Alive”:
Negotiating the Politics of Being a Symbol
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX
