RT Book
T1 A more beautiful and terrible history: the uses and misuses of civil rights history
A1 Theoharis, Jeanne 1969-
LA English
PP Boston
PB Beacon Press
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1634683374
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN E185.61
SN 9780807075876
K1 African Americans : Civil rights : History : 20th century
K1 African Americans : Civil rights : Historiography
K1 Civil rights movements : United States : History : 20th century
K1 Civil rights movements : United States : Historiography
K1 United States : Race relations : History : 20th century
K1 United States : Race relations : Historiography
K1 USA : Schwarze : Bürgerrechtsbewegung : Geschichtsschreibung : Geschichte