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Dividing Lines : Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma by J Mills Thornton; EBSCOhost is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>A landmark book on the struggle for racial equality in America.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>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.&nbsp; 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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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Author

J Mills Thornton; EBSCOhost

Publisher

The University of Alabama Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817352998

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Science