Independent Newspaper Nigeria·3 min read·hard
The Long Civil Rights Movement
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SHEHRYAR FAZLI
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This article reviews Brandon M. Terry’s book 'Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,' which challenges the romanticized historical narrative of the American Civil Rights Movement. It explores the tension between the nation's constitutional ideals and the reality of systemic inequality.
“ The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing,” says the Black nurse Belize in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, set in the 1980s, “He set the word ‘free’ to a note so high no one can reach it.”
politicsculturesocial justice
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