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Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of CUNY and author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.

Articles

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

Lerone A. Martin, Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

Margaret A. Burnham, Jeanne Theoharis

Forums

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

Jeanne Theoharis, Amna A. Akbar

Forum Responses

King challenged injustice in the North, as well.
Jeanne Theoharis

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