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Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis
Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and the author or coauthor of seven books and numerous articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements, the politics of race and education, social welfare, and civil rights in post-9/11 America. Her widely acclaimed biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a 2014 NAACP Image Award and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, and appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list.


How Politicians Use the Civil Rights Movement to Obscure Ongoing Racism

On the Uses and Misuses of History, by Conservatives and Liberals Alike
February 2, 2018  By Jeanne Theoharis
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