{"id":159738,"date":"2022-10-09T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=159738"},"modified":"2022-10-09T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T08:36:22","slug":"waging-a-good-war-review-compelling-military-history-of-the-civil-rights-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/waging-a-good-war-review-compelling-military-history-of-the-civil-rights-fight","title":{"rendered":"Waging a Good War review: compelling military history of the civil rights fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 March 1965, a state trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, during a civil rights voting march in Selma, Alabama.Thomas E Ricks has written a sweeping history of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, retelling many of its moments of triumph and tragedy, from the Montgomery bus boycott spawned by the courage of Rosa Parks in 1955 to the bodies bloodied and broken by Alabama troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 10 years later.The stories are familiar but Ricks is the first author to mine this great American saga for its similarities to a military campaign.James Lawson, a key figure in training a cadre of influential movement leaders, called it &#8220;moral warfare&#8221;. Cleveland Sellers said the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi &#8220;was almost like a shorter version&#8221; of the Vietnam war. Ricks points out that &#8220;the central tactic of the movement &#8211; the march &#8211; is also the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas E Ricks has written a sweeping history of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, retelling many of its moments of triumph and tragedy, from the Montgomery bus boycott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1,23],"tags":[90,19,97,42],"class_list":["post-159738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","category-politics","tag-books-literature","tag-entertainment","tag-military","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}