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THE LONG MARCH.(Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973)(Book Review)

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| February 10, 2003 | Lemann, Nicholas | COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A guide to the civil-rights movement online

From 1967, Calvin Trillin on race and a mayoral campaign in Cleveland

The recent fall of a Senate majority leader for the crime of praising a centenarian colleague who had once been a leader of the segregationist movement made for an excellent demonstration of the marvellous, and misleading, clarity of historical retrospection. Everybody now knows, it seems, that the civil-rights movement was a good thing, and that its opponents were so patently wrong that, unless they are elaborately penitent, they can have no place in our public life. (At the same time, it would have been fine for Trent Lott to send off Strom ...

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