#MLKday reading recommendation: 'A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History' by Jeanne Theoharis. At once an analysis of all the myths and counter-myths that shape popular understandings of the Civil Rights Movement, and a wonderfully informative corrective to those same myths.

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#MLKday reading recommendation: 'A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History' by Jeanne Theoharis. At once an analysis of all the myths and counter-myths that shape popular understandings of the Civil Rights Movement, and a wonderfully informative corrective to those same myths.

#mlkday2023 #MLK #civilrights #history #civilrightshistory #publicmemory

"Dr. Percy Lavon Julian was a trailblazing chemist whose discoveries improved and saved countless lives. The grandson of slaves, Julian grew up at a time when African Americans faced extraordinary obstacles. Yet Julian refused to let racism prevent him from becoming one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, as well as a leader in business and civil rights"
- www.pds.org

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2sif5RI8XBU

Across town from #LittleRock Central HS in September 1957, a young Jerry Jones joined a mob of white students trying to block Black students from integrating the school.

Yes, that Jerry Jones

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2022/jerry-jones-black-coaches-nfl/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6Ijg0MzYwNDAiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjY5MjI5MTk1LCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjcwNDM4Nzk1LCJpYXQiOjE2NjkyMjkxOTUsImp0aSI6IjQzNWRkMjAyLTlhY2YtNDUzMi05Nzg5LTNhYjNlYzIyYWJkMCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMi9qZXJyeS1qb25lcy1ibGFjay1jb2FjaGVzLW5mbC8ifQ.3D2cwqUCmD0Wj552vya2Rzgt__79RkU3kl6LbZ6wO3U&itid=gfta

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photo Straeter/AP

https://refusingtoforget.org/2022/11/23/the-rangers-and-the-army-at-porvenir-new-findings-sort-of/ #histodons #histodon @histodons #MexicanAmericanHistory #CivilRightsHistory #TexasHistory

The untold school segregation story behind Bernie Sanders's 1963 arrest while a student at #UChicago - Chicago Reader

This is part of the long history of the 1954 #BrownvBoard #SCOTUS decision. In 1963, the civil rights group CORE protested segregated, inferior schools.

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/the-untold-school-segregation-story-behind-bernie-sanderss-1963-arrest/

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Lunchtime reading today: Jeanne Theoharis’s fierce intro to her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History. This after a lecture in Citizen Nation about race in immigration law based on Mae Ngai’s work. #histodons #teaching #pedagogy #historianatwork #civilrightshistory #womenalsoknowhistory