A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By
Jeanne Theoharis
Jeanne Theoharis
2018 • 282 pages

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