Hidden Sides, Hushed Ideals of a Civil Rights Strategist
Bayard Rustin -
Quaker, former Young Communist cum anti-communist socialist, advocate of non-violence,
''known homosexual'' , architect of the March on Washington and, it goes without saying, great American. A
critical socialist take on Rustin. Here, for our resident
Malcolm X man,
a debate between Rustin and X in 1960--do note the latter's views evolved greatly between then and his assassination--and here is
Nat Hentoff on Rustin. A recent P.O.V. fim on Rustin -
Brother Outsider.
posted by y2karl
on Aug 25, 2003 -
9 comments
Is
Gavin Menzies the Stephen Wolfram of history? That's the question
today's New York Times (login:
dr_mabuse, pw:
mabuse) suggests in a Menzies profile. Menzies has a new book out,
1421, which claims that the Chinese discovered America seven decades before Columbus did.
Some people have made similarly precise claims about this planet's developments.
Others have seen their amateur claims initially mocked and later proven to be correct. Is Menzies onto something or is he a crank? And how do we place the passionate amateur within the realm of scholarly pursuits?
posted by ed
on Jan 5, 2003 -
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Textbook Publishers Learn to Avoid Messing With Texas. "Out of Many," the work of four respected historians, is one of the biggest sellers among American history college textbooks in the United States, but it is not likely to be available to Texas high school students taking advanced placement history. Conservative groups in Texas objected to two paragraphs in the nearly 1,000-page text that explained that prostitution was rampant in cattle towns during the late 19th century, before the West was fully settled.
posted by ncurley
on Jun 30, 2002 -
24 comments
