Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis is a political-science professor at Brooklyn College and the author of a biography of Rosa Parks. Her latest book is A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.

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Coretta Scott King and the Civil-Rights Movement’s Hidden Women

She was far more than her husband’s helpmate, but along with many other leaders of the era, her leadership was hidden in plain sight.
- Jeanne Theoharis
- KING Issue