Description 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 become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy.
This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroi.
Beacon Press A more beautiful and terrible history: the uses and misuses of civil rights history, paperback/jeanne theoharis
