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020 _a9780807075876 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _a9780807063484 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aE185.61
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082 0 0 _a323.1196/0730904
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100 1 _aTheoharis, Jeanne,
_eauthor.
_910537
245 1 2 _aA more beautiful and terrible history :
_bthe uses and misuses of civil rights history /
_cJeanne Theoharis.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBeacon Press,
_c[2018]
300 _axxv, 253 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xCivil rights
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_910538
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xCivil rights
_xHistoriography.
_910539
650 0 _aCivil rights movements
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_910540
650 0 _aCivil rights movements
_zUnited States
_xHistoriography.
_910541
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRace relations
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_910542
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRace relations
_xHistoriography.
_910543
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aTheoharis, Jeanne, author.
_tMore beautiful and terrible history
_dBoston : Beacon Press, 2018
_z9780807075883
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