A More Beautiful and Terrible History : The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (CD-Audio)

from mcelhra

A More Beautiful and Terrible History takes aim the revisionist history of the civil rights movement that we are taught as children in school and that has become the standard narrative. As someone who didn't live through that time period, I found it incredibly enlightening. I think even people wh...

from mdbrady

A powerful account of the Civil Rights Movement in all its "terrible beauty" and an analysis of how that history is already being watered down and misused. Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. She has published on Civil Rights, race, and social wel...

from Matthew1982

One interpretation of the premise of this book is that "everything most of us learn in K-12 education about the civil rights movement is a politically correct myth meant to insulate us from learning about how things really were and asking hard questions to our teachers and parents". The legacies ...

from Nero56

I received a copy of this book as an Early Reviewer from LibraryThing and the publisher. This is an important book but not an easy or perfect one. Theoharis points out the hypocrisies in our current teachings of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.as THE Civil Rights movement, of ignoring the de...

from rivkat

This would've made a great 10,000 word essay, and is possibly adapted from a series of speeches/papers, which might explain the repetition of anecdotes and arguments. The core argument is clearly correct: when people condemn Black Lives Matter and compare modern freedom movements unfavorably with...