A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

Jeanne Theoharis

280 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective slow-paced

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Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has becom...

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