The New York Times

The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes

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The Economist

The civil-rights activists planned to change the world, not just the country

AMERICAN PUBLIC memory of the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has long been fixed on the struggle to dismantle Jim Crow in the South. Most accounts centre on the national efforts of ...
The Boston Globe

What if we are misremembering the civil rights movement?

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...