" A majority of Americans didn’t like it, the federal government feared it, and many good people kept a distance. And we see the work and power of the organizing that made it possible, which shows that there was nothing natural or inevitable about the changes the movement wrought, highlighting the relentless courage, effort, and vision it took to imagine a different America. "

― Jeanne Theoharis , A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History