Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of CUNY and the author of the award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Her new book A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History is out January 30 from Beacon Press.

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Don't Forget That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Once Denounced as an Extremist

Our popular story of civil rights makes it seem as if most decent people were in favor of King and the movement. The reality was different

By Jeanne Theoharis
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