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Martin Luther King Supreme Court Women Anti-Semitism August Meier Personally involved in the movement as a young man and seen as one of the traditional historians pushing a ‘great man’ approach to history) Clayborne Carson Very close to the King family and has access to materials that others don’t. Very balanced on King some of his writing suggests that movement would have followed similar path without King but highlights the M Klarman Argues that the Supreme Court reflects the views of American society towards Civil Rights and reflects the changes in attitude rather than acting as a barrier or catalyst for change itself. Klarman instead points to WW2 as the catalyst to changing attitudes and therefore the improvement in Civil Rights. L Goldstone Belinda Robnett Argues that the day to day organisers of the movement (often women) are essential to the success of the more famous charismatic leaders. Proposed idea of bridge leadership Bernice McNair Barnett Writes about the unsung female heroes of the Civil Rights movement Daniel Goldhagen Reacted angrily (in 1996) to Browning’s suggestion that perpetrators of the Holocaust for the most part did not hold extreme Anti-Semitic beliefs. Goldhagen argues that ‘eliminationist was strongly embedded in German culture and that it existed before the Nazis came to power and did not require Nazi Anti-Semitic propaganda to ‘brainwash’ the German people. He controversial argues that the German people were different to other countries in terms of the extent of their Anti-Semitic beliefs and willingness/ enthusiasm for eliminating the Jews. He points to the pride in their actions of those who took part in carrying out the Holocaust, the fact that many went
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