Opinion: James Lawson and how ‘the Civil Rights Movement will have to become revolutionary’
“With an iron-grip commitment to nonviolence, Lawson called for campaigns of civil disobedience that pressed the demands of the larger Black community.”
Topic: Aram Goudsouzian
RSSThere are 9 article(s) tagged Aram Goudsouzian:
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June 2026
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April 2025
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Opinion: Don’t restrict stories such as Bayard Rustin’s
“The nation’s institutions should encourage an open exploration of its past — one that accounts for both triumphs and shortcomings, one that eschews sloppy oversimplification, one that highlights how history contains an array of voices that have shaped who we are today.”
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August 2023
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Guest Column: Teaching this history is ‘an act of patriotism’
“To study history, then, is not to regurgitate a timeline of events, but to engage in a dynamic process of interpretation, with stakes for how we define ourselves.”
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April 2023
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MLK anniversary offers broader view of Civil Rights Movement and present
Two history professors, looking at the city’s Civil Rights Movement since Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 55 years ago, talk about Tyre Nichols, police reform and where today’s movement is headed on “Behind The Headlines.”
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March 2020
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Nelson: Pink Palace’s Tiger hoops exhibit is Memphis in a nutshell
In the University of Memphis Tigers' basketball museum exhibition, history is marked as B.F. and A.F. The F is for Finch.
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April 2019
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How the election of 1968 changed us
The presidential campaign of 1968 was a last hurrah for the “Old Politics,” in which political machines and party leaders determined the major nominees. It also highlighted a “New Politics,” in which candidates took their cases to the people, through party primaries and modern technology.
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February 2019
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New discussions of old Memphis narratives challenge views of Memphis history
The city’s image and its reality, 200 years after its founding sometimes part company in how the narrative of Memphis is told. -
Essays on Memphis ‘Black Struggle’ offer counter-narrative
A collection of essays on the African-American struggle in Memphis by 17 historians is seen by its editors as a “powerful counter-narrative” to a more compressed history of the city.
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Politics Podcast: ‘An Unseen Light’ and Memphis history reconsidered
Historians Dr. Charles McKinney and Dr. Aram Goudsouzian talk about the history of the black struggle in Memphis on The Daily Memphian Politics podcast.
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