Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate;Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.The civil righ...

2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work–Biography/Autobiography  2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women HistoriansPresenting a powerful corrective to the popular iconography of Rosa Park...