Monday, March 27, 2017

RSN: Jon Else | Not Your Grandma's Civil Rights Strategy, Whose Streets? (Then and Now)



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FOCUS: Jon Else | Not Your Grandma's Civil Rights Strategy, Whose Streets? (Then and Now) 
President Obama, former President George W. Bush, and Civil Rights Movement veterans and other commemoration attendees marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March, 2015. (photo: Lawrence Jackson/White House) 
Jon Else, TomDispatch 
Else writes: "Our long-running, ongoing, unfinished American civil rights struggle that so often focused on pressing the federal government toward justice, is suddenly in uncharted territory. The legacy of Reverend Martin Luther King has slammed up against the legacy of Alabama Governor George Wallace, whose snarling campaign for president in 1968 has come home to roost in the presidency of Donald Trump." 
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