TY  - BOOK
AU  - Theoharis,Jeanne
TI  - A more beautiful and terrible history: the uses and misuses of civil rights history 
SN  - 9780807075876 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - E185.61 .T44 2018
U1  - 323.1196/0730904 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - United States
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -