Title:	Black liberation in the Midwest :
Other Titles:	The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970
Authors:	Kenneth S., Jolly Graham Hodges
Keywords:	African Americans--Civil rights--Missouri--Saint Louis--History--20th century
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	The title of this introduction, “It Happened Here Too,” reflects my own response to the past and present state of civil rights movement scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the Black liberation movement that took place there. In her presidential address to the Organization of American Historians in 2004, historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall states, “remembrance is always a form of forgetting, and the dominant narrative of the civil rights movement—distilled from history and memory, twisted by ideology and political contestation, and embedded in heritage tours, museums, public rituals, textbooks, and various artifacts of mass culture—distorts and suppresses as much as it reveals.”2 In recent years scholars have broadened the boundaries of traditional and popular understanding and depiction of the civil rights movement, broadening the scope and expanse of this movement,extending the time and geographic boundaries while broadening the topics of discourse.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10092
ISBN:	0-415-97969-2
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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