Stanford Seminar - “The Civil Rights Movement: Long, Wide, Deep?” Prof. Kevin Kruse Director of the Center for Collaborative History -Univ. Princeton
Friday, January 27, 2023 12:30pm
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Stanford Seminar “The Civil Rights Movement: Long, Wide, Deep?”
Kevin Kruse - Prof. of History / Director of the Center for Collaborative History- Princeton University.
In recent years, historians have debated the proper perspective on the civil rights movement. Rejecting the “classical” understanding of the civil rights struggle — the “Montgomery to Memphis” narrative that largely followed the work of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the late 1950s and early 1960s — different groups of scholars have proposed alternate frameworks. Some have proposed a “long” civil rights movement, marked by continuities and a chronological sweep that runs from Reconstruction through the present day. Others have called for a “wide” framing which moves beyond the traditional southern setting to encompass the entire United States. Still more have called for a “deep” perspective that focuses not just on the well-known protests but smaller changes at the grassroots as well. In this seminar we'll consider the strengths and weaknesses of these various perspectives.
Kevin M. Kruse studies the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America. Focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion, he has particular interests in segregation and the civil rights movement, the rise of religious nationalism and the making of modern conservatism.
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