Browsing by Subject "civil rights movement"
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06)In recent years, theorists have begun to explore the ways in which the narratives our children read influence the democratic ideals we wish to impart. In a nation so stratified along both racial and socioeconomic lines ...
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(2021-05-03)From February to May 1960, a racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of students and clergy members staged nonviolent sit-ins in downtown Nashville with the goal of desegregating public spaces in the city. In these ...
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(2006-12-07)Department: HistoryThe civil rights movement was the most important intellectual transformation since the Second World War; in terms of domestic influence, possibly the most important since the Civil War. Still, people often disagree about ...
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(2006-03-28)Department: HistoryThe familiarity of the evangelist Billy Graham has led historians to overlook his contribution to the creation of the post-civil rights era South. This project considers Graham’s influence on the American South by focusing ...