Jeanne Theoharis | The Nation

Jeanne Theoharis holds the endowed chair in women's studies and is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and a co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties. She is the author of numerous books on the civil rights movement and the contemporary politics of race in the United States, including (as co-author) Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Schools.