The northern promised land that wasn't
Rosa Parks and the Black Freedom Struggle in Detroit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12129152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanne Theoharis (City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-27 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OAH Magazine of History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0882-228X • E-ISSN: 1938-2340 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oahmag/oar054 |
| OpenAlex | W2021907338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In 2004, researchers asked high school students across the U.S. to name their top ten “most famous Americans in history” (excluding presidents) from “Columbus to the present day.” Sixty percent listed Rosa Parks, who was second in frequency only to Martin Luther King, Jr (1). There is perhaps no story of the civil rights movement more familiar to students than Rosa Parks’ heroic 1955 bus stand in Montgomery, Alabama and the year-long boycott that ensued. And yet, perhaps because of its fame, few histories are more mythologized. In the fable, racial injustice was rampant in the South (but not the rest of the nation). A quiet seamstress tired from a day’s work without thought refused to give up her seat on the bus, galvanizing the civil rights movement. The country then banded together and eliminated Jim Crow segregation, holding true to its ideals (2). The real
Black culture · Black history · Environmental ethics · Political science · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society · Gender Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |