Dividing Lines e-bog
436,85 DKK
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Presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots levelThornton 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 nati...
E-bog
436,85 DKK
Forlag
University Alabama Press
Udgivet
22 april 2011
Længde
752 sider
Genrer
1KBBSB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780817380984
Presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots levelThornton 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.