![]() The common-sense memory of the Black freedom movement that prevails in our society translates collective challenges to unjust structural and systemic power as largely therapeutic exercises that purged the nation of its prejudices. Popular memorials constantly recall the campaigns to desegregate lunch counters and open voting booths, but ignore collective mass mobilizations for jobs and justice. ![]() We are encouraged to forget that the civil rights movement was part of a broader Black freedom struggle that sought class justice and the radical reorganization of society itself. In museums and memorials, in civic celebrations and schoolbooks, in punditry and many different forms of popular culture, rhetorical fabrication undermines historical investigation. In our time, the Black freedom movement of the mid-20th century is now both well remembered and selectively forgotten. REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING are not only things that people do they are things that are done to them. ![]() Louis, 1936-1975Īnn Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009, 324 pages, George Lipsitz Grassroots at the Gateway:Ĭlass Politics & Black Freedom Struggle in St. Forging Change, Breaking Chains | Solidarity Forging Change, Breaking Chains ![]()
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