The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks

Venue:
Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre
Michael Sadler Building
University of Leeds

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the School of History at the University of Leeds is hosting a public lecture about the life of Rosa Parks.

Jeanne Theoharis will be talking about her book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, which won the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Biography/Autobiography as well as the 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.

Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.  She is the author of numerous books and articles on the civil rights movement and contemporary politics of race in the US, including the recent, award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.  She is also co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties.

All are welcome and there is no need to book.

The lecture is co-organized by the School of History and the White Spaces Research Network. There will be a wine reception and book signing afterwards.

See here for venue details.