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A Political Education Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s (Justice, Power, and Politics)

Elizabeth Todd-Breland

In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and Latinx communities t...

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The Bulwark Podcast

It's about the Senate and the LBJ presidency and the civil rights fight and what was happening in DC at that time. It's an interesting first-person perspective on that tumultuous time and those characters and what their real views were on race and navigating these fragile coalitions.

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And I'm sure somebody will reply with, well, Tim, you had to include this or that. But to me, I kept coming back to, I loved the political education by Harry McPherson.

— Episode: Symone Sanders-Townsend: Don't Say We Di...

Episode: Symone Sanders-Townsend: Don't Say We Didn't Warn...

It's about the Senate and the LBJ presidency and the civil rights fight and what was happening in DC at that time. It's an interesting first-person perspective on that tumultuous time and those characters and what their real views were on race and navigating these fragile coalitions.

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And I'm sure somebody will reply with, well, Tim, you had to include this or that. But to me, I kept coming back to, I loved the political education by Harry McPherson.

He was a longtime staffer to LBJ.

And his book is about the Senate and the LBJ presidency and the civil rights fight and what was happening in DC at that time.

I think it's such an interesting first-person perspective on that tumultuous time and those characters and what their real views were on race and navigating these fragile coalitions.

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