Beverly Gage

History

Beverly Gage is professor of 20th-century American history and director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. Her courses focus on American politics, political thought, social movements, and governance, broadly conceived.

Movies

MLK/FBI
MLK/FBI
Self
Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Self - Historian
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.