Dividing lines : municipal politics and the struggle for civil rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma /

With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents 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-Montg...

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Municipal politics and the struggle for civil rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
1. Verfasser:
Thornton, J. Mills
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents 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-Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. There, the arcane mechanisms of state and city governance and the missteps of municipal politicians and civic leaders-independent of emerging national trends in racial mores-led to the great swell of energy for change that became the civil rights movement. <
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1 online resource (749 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [585]-696) and index.
ISBN:
0-8173-8098-1
Schlagworte:
Civil rights movements > Alabama > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama.
Political culture > Alabama > History > 20th century.
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