civil rights
In this valuable history, Thomas E. Ricks looks at the critical events of “The Second Reconstruction” as a series of campaigns in a nonviolent war.
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The Movement works best as a stripped-down, high-speed introduction to the struggle for civil rights, nothing more.
Read MoreSelma doesn’t dare to offer the viewer anything new.
Read More“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”
Read More“If you’re dead you won’t have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive.”
Read MoreFanny Lou Hamer’s life and the political struggle, which gave us the Voting Rights Act, is the basis of Mary Watkins’ two-act opera.
Read MoreIn the mesmerizing “The Last White Knight,” documentary filmmaker Paul Saltzman chronicles a five-year dialogue with the man who assaulted him during the civil rights movement.
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