A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history Introduction: the political uses and misuses of civil rights history and memorialization in the present The long movement outside the south: fighting for school desegregation in the liberal north Revisiting the uprisings of the 1960s and the history of injustice and struggle that preceded them Beyond the redneck: polite racism and the white moderate The media was often an obstacle to the struggle for racial justice Beyond a bus seat: the movement pressed for desegregation criminal justice economic justice and global justice The great man theory of history part I: where are the young people The great man view of history part II: where are the women Extremists troublemakers and national security threats: the public demonization of rebels the toll it took and government repression of the movement Learning to play on locked pianos: the movement was persevering organized disruptive and often disparaged and other lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott Afterword: a history for a better world