Protesting with Rosa Parks
From Stagecoaches to Driving While Black
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Protesting with Rosa Parks is deeply informed by the lives, and at times the deaths, of nearly a hundred African Americans as they traveled the country. This book is a model of how biography can bring social history to life across a span of almost two hundred years. Of special note is David Ruggles, in effect the first 'freedom rider,' a significant thinker and strategist whose willingness to put his body on the line repeatedly in the name of freedom was truly revolutionary. When we see someone today protesting inequality, at risk of being vilified, beaten, and arrested, we are witnessing the legacy of David Ruggles and the others in this outstanding book.
» Steven J. Niven, executive editor, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
Protesting with Rosa Parks details the history of the intersections between Black activism and travel over a span of one hundred and ninety years. John K. Bollard recounts the experiences of more than ninety-five civil rights leaders and private citizens who protested against segregation on stagecoaches, trains, streetcars, steamboats, buses, planes, cars, and even elevators--people like David Ruggles, John Lewis, Sandra Bland, and Tyre Nichols.
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Protesting with Rosa Parks details the history of the intersections between Black activism and travel over a span of one hundred and ninety years. John K. Bollard recounts the experiences of more than ninety-five civil rights leaders and private citizens who protested against segregation on stagecoaches, trains, streetcars, steamboats, buses, planes, cars, and even elevators--people like David Ruggles, John Lewis, Sandra Bland, and Tyre Nichols. While recognizing the historical significance of Rosa Parks, this book reveals her refusal to move as part of a long tradition of protest that strives to guarantee everyone the right to ride on our collective journey towards equality.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- NewSouth Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 424
- ISBN
- 9781588385529
- Utgivelsesår
- 2025
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Om forfatteren
JOHN K. BOLLARD is the author of ten books and served as the managing editor of the African American National Biography at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research. Bollard has a PhD in English from the University of Leeds and has written extensively on medieval Welsh literature and history.
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Protesting with Rosa Parks is deeply informed by the lives, and at times the deaths, of nearly a hundred African Americans as they traveled the country. This book is a model of how biography can bring social history to life across a span of almost two hundred years. Of special note is David Ruggles, in effect the first 'freedom rider,' a significant thinker and strategist whose willingness to put his body on the line repeatedly in the name of freedom was truly revolutionary. When we see someone today protesting inequality, at risk of being vilified, beaten, and arrested, we are witnessing the legacy of David Ruggles and the others in this outstanding book.
» Steven J. Niven, executive editor, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
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The fight for justice didn’t start or end with one person but by the blood shed by countless individuals. I was a fifteen-year-old girl when I refused to give up my seat, but I knew it was my constitutional right, and I wasn’t breaking any laws except the unwritten Jim Crow law of segregation. This history is about more than a bus seat; it’s about standing up against a racist system that had oppressed colored people for generations. I hope this book reminds us of how far we’ve come and still have to go.
» Claudette Colvin, American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement who was arrested on a Montgomery bus ten months
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While Rosa Parks has been venerated for her instrumental role in the civil rights movement, John K. Bollard’s Protesting with Rosa Parks shows her courageous actions have deep roots in the Black protest tradition. Having unearthed lesser-known stories of resistance to segregated public conveyances, Bollard’s book demonstrates the centrality of such efforts within broader movements to end slavery, Jim Crow, and racist policing practices. Indeed, this engaging, well-written book provides an original contribution to the history of the Black protest tradition - from the early Republic to our present day.
» Ousmane Power-Greene, author of Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement