Dividing lines: municipal politics and the struggle for civil rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
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Main Author: Thornton, J. Mills (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2002
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Montgomery; 3. Birmingham; 4. Selma; 5. Aftermath; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Index
Twenty years in the making, this book is the definitive study of the political cultures that reigned in the three Alabama cities central to the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. With this bold offering, J. Mills Thornton III presents a landmark publication on the struggle for racial equality in America. After two decades of pain-staking research, he tells the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history--at the grassroots level. Thornton demonstrates that the movement had powerful local sources in its three birth cities--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 733 pages)
ISBN:0817380981
9780817311704
9780817380984

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