Bestselling, award-winning author: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks was a New York Times Bestseller and was adapted into an NBC documentary and a YA edition. It won the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Biography/Autobiography and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.
Blurbs for new book: We already have blurbs from Jonathan Eig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Martha Jones, and Lerone Martin; will secure many others, from Peniel Joseph, Rev. William Barber, Soledad O'Brien, and more.
Reviews track record: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks received glowing reviews in major media across the country (including a dedicated column in the New York Times by Charles Blow) and Theoharis appeared on national media to discuss it, including MSNBC, Democracy Now!, and elsewhere.
Media Platform: Theoharis writes regularly for national media including Time, The New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, The Nation, Slate, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Salon, The Intercept, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
National Launch: The book will be published just before April 4, the anniversary of King's assassination. We will plan major launch events, building on the campaign for her prior book-including at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and elsewhere.
