Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of City University of New York and the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements and the contemporary politics of race in the US. Her books include The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (winner of a 2014 NAACP Image Award) and A More Beautiful and Terrible History (winner of the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Nonfiction). Connect with her on Twitter (@JeanneTheoharis).
Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of several books for children and teens, including The Only Black Girls in Town, The Voting Booth, and the Stonewall Book Award winner Little & Lion. She is the cowriter of Misty Copeland's Life in Motion young readers' edition. Her books have been chosen as Junior Library Guild selections and have appeared on many best-of lists, including the American Library Association's Best Fiction for Young Adults. She is on faculty at Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children and lives in Los Angeles.

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
A (Shy) Rebel Is Born
CHAPTER TWO
Following Rules and Breaking Some Too
CHAPTER THREE
Introducing Raymond Parks-"The First Real Activist I Ever Met"
CHAPTER FOUR
The Newest Member of the NAACP
CHAPTER FIVE
Organizing in the Face of Opposition
CHAPTER SIX
The NAACP Youth Council Gets a Fresh Start
CHAPTER SEVEN
Resistance + Anger = Seeds of Change
CHAPTER EIGHT
Claudette Colvin Sits Down (and Rises Up)
CHAPTER NINE
Highlander Folk School
CHAPTER TEN
Seeking Justice for Emmett Till
CHAPTER ELEVEN
December 1, 1955
CHAPTER TWELVE
A Boycott Blossoms
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Rosa Parks Goes to Court
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
A Yearlong Boycott
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Victory at Last (but the Struggle Continues)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
"The Northern Promised Land That Wasn't"
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Rosa Parks Joins the Fight Up North
CHAPTER NINETEEN
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
CHAPTER TWENTY
Working for John Conyers
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Meeting Malcolm X
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Going (Back) Down South
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
The Detroit Uprising
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
The Assassination of Dr. King
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Black Power!
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
"Freedom Fighters Never Retire"
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
The Struggle Continues
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Image Credits
Index
About the Author
About the Adapter