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

Thornton, J. Mills 1943- (author.).

Summary: 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--

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ISBN: 081731170X
ISBN: 9780817311704
ISBN: 0817352996
ISBN: 9780817352998
ISBN: 0817380981
ISBN: 9780817380984
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 733 pages) : map
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Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Montgomery; 3. Birmingham; 4. Selma; 5. Aftermath; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Index.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.