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Playbook for Progressives (Paperback, 2011, Beacon Press) 3 stars

An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, Playbook for Progressives is a must-have for the …

In the famous Montgomery bus boycott, few understand that Rosa Parks was not just a historically pivotal protestor but an experienced tactitian... who had been trained in the Civil Rights Movement with the NAACP—fighting debt peonage and lynchings. She had gone to meetings at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. Her refusal to give up her seat was a tactic in the larger strategy of the fight for racial equality.

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If the next thing your mind hears after the name Rosa Parks is Cedric the Entertainer's quip in "Barbershop" about Parks being not a hero, but a tired woman who wanted to sit her ass down—as my own mind did—then a quick look at her story online will be enlightening, as it was for me.