A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history
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A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history
Beacon Press, c2018
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: the political uses and misuses of civil rights history and memorialization in the present
- The long movement outside the south: fighting for school desegregation in the "liberal" north
- Revisiting the uprisings of the 1960s and the long history of injustice and struggle that preceded them
- Beyond the redneck: polite racism and the "white moderate"
- The media was often an obstacle to the struggle for racial justice
- Beyond a bus seat: the movement pressed for desegregation, criminal justice, economic justice, and global justice
- The great man view of history, part I: where are the young people?
- The great man view of history, part II: where are the women?
- Extremists, troublemakers, and national security threats: the public demonization of rebels, the toll it took, and government repression of the movement
- Learning to play on locked pianos: the movement was persevering, organized, disruptive, and disparaged, and other lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott
- Afterword: a history for a better world
