Dark Sleeve of History No More
3 April 2011
But the story didn’t begin in 1919, which is the very point of two new books, one centered in New York, the other in Philadelphia. One must pull the curtain back even as far back as the late 18th century.
Posts tagged with “Sweet Land Of Liberty”
The Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue
1 May 2009 | The Pennsylvania Gazette
In The Origins of the Urban Crisis and now Sweet Land of Liberty, Penn historian Thomas Sugrue has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country. The new book was published on the same day a black man was elected president; still, says Sugrue, “We’ve got a lot of overcoming to do.”
Fables of the Reconstruction
5 November 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
One doesn’t need a book like this to understand the amalgam of failure, disappointment and resilience that the civil rights struggle produced. It’s plainly here, in the sometimes disheartening, sometimes exhilarating fact of this great black city.
Saving Race
27 March 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
The original hope of economic justice got pushed aside in favor of campaigns for integration, education and self-esteem. “This new civil rights would prove fundamentally unable to redress the economic hierarchies of Jim Crow America,” says Goluboff of the movement’s ultimate focus on these softer targets.