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.
- ISBN13 9780817311704
- Publish Date 25 September 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of Alabama Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 752
- Language English