The struggle for the people`s king: How politics transforms the memory of the civil rights movement
- Princeton Princeton University Press 2023
- xv, 265 p. Includes bibliographical reference and index
In the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women’s rights activists and LGBTQ coalitions. Increasingly since the 1980s, white, right-wing social movements, from family values coalitions to the alt-right, now claim the collective memory of civil rights to portray themselves as the newly oppressed minorities.