Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movement The civil rights movement has become nationa
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English Pages xxv, 283 pages; 24 cm Year 2018
Table of contents :
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 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 theory 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 often disparaged, and other lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott --
Afterword: a history for a better world.