Erin Pineda teaches at Smith College. Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement is forthcoming from Oxford.
However much the media and public officials love to describe contemporary events – whatever they may be – as ‘unprecedented’, when it comes to protest in America there is exactly one precedent: the civil rights movement. That has proven true yet again this week.
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