A01=J.Mills Thornton
alabama
alabama history
Author_J.Mills Thornton
Category=JBSL
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civil rights
civil rights leaders
civil rights movement
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equal rights
equality
laws
public policy
racism
segregation
seperate but equal
south
southern
southern history
Product details
- ISBN 9780817352998
- Weight: 1160g
- Dimensions: 154 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2006
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
J. Mills Thornton III is Professor of History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and author of Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860.
