by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Jan 15, 2015 | Civil Rights History
As film critics opine about the best movies of 2014 and historians and former aides to President Lyndon Johnson debate his portrayal in the new film “Selma,” something risks becoming lost: the film’s willingness to highlight black voices, ideas, and bodies in their... by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Aug 28, 2013 | Civil Rights History
Tonight I will participate in a Twitter chat with some of the best scholars at Duke on the topic of the March on Washington and the commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary. But rather than try to answer the somewhat tired question of whether Dr. Martin Luther King... by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Aug 14, 2013 | Civil Rights History
John Lewis seems to be everywhere these days. The 73-year-old freedom struggle leader-turned-congressman from Georgia, in many ways, has been the civil rights conscience of Congress for a while now. But he has become particularly visible since the Supreme Court struck... by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Jul 23, 2013 | Reflections
The week George Zimmerman was acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin I was in the hospital tending to my new son, born on July 11. His birth was a joyous occasion. Needless to say, the trial result put a damper on the moment, as justice was yet again denied to a... by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Jun 11, 2013 | About the Book
Last week, I took the “Page 99 test.” If you’re not familiar with it, novelist and critic Ford Madox Ford believed that one should “open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” So I...