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- TitleA More Beautiful and Terrible History: Uses and Misuses of the Civil Rights Movement: an author talk with Jeanne Theoharis.
- Call NumberBCER_0014
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryJeanne Theoharis, distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College, talks about her latest award-winning book, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: the Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Theoharis discusses the ways in which the Civil Rights movement was much more complex and nuanced than it appeared, and that its many foes were more dangerous even as they continue their influence to this day.
- Date2019-02-27
- Formatmoving image
- Physical Description1 moving image file (45 mins.) : digital, MP4, color
- GenreMP4presentations (communicative events)
- CreatorTheoharis, Jeanne
- SubjectAfrican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century ; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century ; Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- CollectionBrooklyn Collection Event Recordings
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.