She Would Not Be Moved - How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Informationen zum Autor Herbert Kohl is the author of more than forty books, including the bestselling classic 36 Children. A recipient of the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, he was founder and first director of the Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City and established the PEN West Center in San Francisco, where he lives. Marian Wright Edelman is founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She lives in Washington, D.C. Klappentext The prizewinning educator's brilliant and timely meditation on the misleading ways in which we teach the story of Rosa Parks Published in hardcover in the fall of 2005 shortly before Rosa Parks died, She Would Not Be Moved is a timely and important exploration of how the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught in schools. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review when it was first published as having "the transcendent power that allows us to see . . . alternate ways of viewing our history and understanding what is going on in our classrooms," this expanded version of Kohl's original groundbreaking discussion "deftly catalogs problems with the prevailing presentations of Parks and offers [a] more historically accurate, politically pointed and age-appropriate alternative" (Chicago Tribune). In addition to Marian Wright Edelman's introduction, She Would Not Be Moved includes an original essay by Cynthia Brown on civil rights activists Septima Clark, Virginia Durr, and Rosa Parks; a teachers' resource guide to educational materials about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement; and an appendix explaining how to evaluate textbooks for young people about this critical period in U.S. history.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Stokes Brown, Brown Cynthia Stokes, Herbert Kohl, Herbert R Kohl, Herbert R. Kohl
• Assisted by: Edelman Marian Wright (Introduction)
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9781595581273
• ISBN: 978-1-59558-127-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Alabama, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, Human rights, civil rights, C 1945 To C 1960