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

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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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO4167525
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Year:
2002
Publisher:
The University of Alabama Press
Language:
English
Pages:
752
ISBN 13:
9780817352998
ISBN:
9780817311704,9780817380984,978081735299

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