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Debunking Myths about the Civil Rights Movement

October 14, 2020 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Book Reviews, Social Movements

Jeanne Theoharis. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (Beacon Press. Kindle Edition) [E]ven those civil rights heroes we recognize today were reviled in their day and made to feel crazy. Today’s lamentation—that we need another King—misses the fact that we have many

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

February 18, 2018 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Brooklyn College’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science Jeanne Theoharis is a readable and fascinating account of the life of Rosa Parks that won many awards when it was punished in 2013. Here’s my “take” on the story, based on the book. I

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