Dec. 10, 2009, The New Story of Civil Rights History
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You’ve heard it before. The Civil Rights Movement in America began in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery. It ended in 1968 when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside his hotel in Memphis. This rendering of the Civil Rights “story” is common. But it isn’t the full story by any means, according to a dozen or so historians who gathered at UNH in November to take part in a conference called “Expanding Civil Rights History in Time and Space.”
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