A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history / Jeanne Theoharis.
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the movement firmly in the past, whitewashed the forces that stood in its...
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Beacon Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : A dream diluted and distorted
- THE HISTORIES WE GET. Introduction : The political uses and misuses of civil rights history and memorialization in the present
- THE HISTORIES WE NEED. 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.