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Thomas Sugrue: Civil Rights v. Black Power, 5 October 2006

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice 
by Raymond Arsenault.
Oxford, 690 pp., £19.99, March 2006, 0 19 513674 8
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... at the movement’s heart, and the troubling persistence of racial inequality in modern America. Raymond Arsenault’s compelling history of one of the most important battles of the struggle focuses on eight months in 1961 – a moment when Jim Crow seemed to be as entrenched as ever. In the five years following Montgomery, the civil rights movement ...

You must do something

Randall Kennedy: John Lewis fights for freedom, 23 October 2025

John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community 
by Raymond Arsenault.
Yale, 558 pp., £25, February 2024, 978 0 300 28181 1
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John Lewis: A Life 
by David Greenberg.
Simon & Schuster, 704 pp., $23, October 2024, 978 1 9821 4300 8
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... The two men never fully reconciled. When Bond died in 2015, Lewis was not invited to the funeral.Raymond Arsenault​ and David Greenberg have written scholarly, capacious biographies of Lewis, both of which make significant contributions to the historiography of the civil rights movement and its legacies. Both synthesise the sizeable secondary ...

Who do you think you are?

Jacqueline Rose: Trans Narratives, 5 May 2016

... laugh’ – a formula lifted from a commentary on the work of the trans cabaret artist Nina Arsenault, who, while modelling herself on a Barbie doll, manages to cover all the options by performing herself as both real and fake. There are no lengths to which Arsenault has not gone, no procedures she hasn’t ...

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