Image: Latinas in the New World, a new online exhibit.

 
Dahleen Glanton, writing in the Chicago Tribune, uses the death of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth to examine the idea that teaching about the American civil rights movement has been reduced to: Rosa Parks, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and “I have a dream.”

What is most troubling is that a half-century down the road from the events of the 1960s, there is a misconception among some that the movement was happenstance and that King almost single-handedly put the country on a different track.

No disrespect to King, whose charisma and fearless leadership provided the backbone of the movement. But the civil rights movement was a cumulative effort involving thousands of people from all walks of life.

The Eames House in Pacific Palisades will be open for a fundraiser on Saturday while the living room is on display at LACMA, and Rudolph Schindler’s Lovell Beach House will be open Sunday, also for a fundraiser. Lisa Boone at The Times’ L.A. at Home blog.

A new book and report on “60 Minutes” challenges the idea that Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide. Mike Boehm in The Times Culture Monster.

(Could it have been yet another crime by Dr. George “Evil Genius” Hodel, L.A.’s version of Professor Moriarty, who purportedly committed every famous unsolved killing in the U.S. for decades, invented the Edsel, introduced Classic Coke and discovered Milli Vanilli  while the police did nothing because he knew:  which city officials had the clap?)

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