Rabu, 28 Februari 2018

MHQ Letters from Readers- Summer 2010

Civil Rights Movement Should Never Be Called Insurgency Professor Mark Grimsley’s article “Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency” (Spring 2010) introduces many readers to facts about the civil rights movement that lie outside popular conceptions, and in doing so he provides a useful service as a historian. But he also pushes the definitions …

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