She Would Not Be Moved

"National Book Award-winner and best-selling author Herbert Kohl first published a brief reflection on how the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught to children. Kohl's goal was to dispel the widely believed myth that Rosa Parks was simply a poor, uneducated seamstress who acted on impulse and emotion rather than with intelligence and moral conviction. Instead, Kohl advocated for a retelling that underscores the role of the wider African American Community, and the planning and forethought critical to the civil rights - and all social - movements." Now, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the bus boycott, Kohl has expanded and updated his groundbreaking discussion and added a number of complementary pieces. Beginning with a new introduction by Marian Write Edelman, She Would Not Be Moved also includes an original essay by Cynthia Brown on civil rights activists Septima Clark, Virginia Durr, and Rosa Parks; an extensive teachers' resource guide to educational materials about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement; an appendix explaining how to evaluate many of the textbooks written for young people about this period; and a half dozen historical photographs.