Politico The birth of a new civil rights movement Sarah Jackson, a professor at Northeastern University whose research focuses on social movements, said the civil rights establishment embraces the “Martin Luther King-Al Sharpton model”—which emphasizes mobilizing people for rallies and speeches and tends to be centered around a charismatic male leader. But the younger activists are instead inclined to what Jackson called the “Fannie […]
The Dallas Morning News Q&A: Edward Miller, author of ‘Nut Country: Right-wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy’ It’s no secret that the Republican Party’s rise in the South went hand in glove with the rise of the civil rights movement and desegregation. But historian and Northeastern University professor Edward H. Miller argues in his new book, “Nut Country: Right-wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy,” that Big D was the […]