More Scholarship on Race in the South
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After The Dream: Black and White Southerners Since 1965
"The topic of civil rights after the Selma crisis in 1965 is just beginning to generate interest. Several works have appeared examining the movement in the later 1960s and 1970s, but very few carry the story to the present. Minchin and Salmond (both, La Trobe Univ., Australia) have produced an excellent comprehensive history that brings the story through the administration of George W. Bush. (Choice Reviews) [NOTE: Ebook Ordered by the Library in November 2021]
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Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. And the Making of a National Leader
"Using archives, interviews, and varied autobiographies, Jackson, a pastor at the United Christian Church in Cincinnati, identifies the upbringing, collegiate experience, and theological education that the novice minister brought to Montgomery. Jackson then shows how the already begun Montgomery protest and the prompting of local leaders drew King in the role of spokesman, which made him choose between working through the Montgomery situation and moving onto the path of national leadership." (Choice Reviews)
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Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights
"Patterson (Georgetown Univ.) has gathered an impressive array of scholars to meditate on black cultural productions in the 1970s and their influence on political movements and cultural engagements of the time." (Choice Review)
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Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
"The author makes the case that the US Senate was the preeminent legislative battleground in the southern fight to preserve Jim Crow. He covers the southern caucus's struggles over civil rights proposals from the anti-lynching battle of the 1930s through the epic fights over the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965." (Choice Reviews)
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
"This biography by Ransby (African American studies, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) is complete, even-handed, and fills a void in the literature of the Civil Rights Movement." (Choice Reviews)
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Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream For A New America
"Focusing on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Hogan argues with eloquence and passion that the crusade against segregation went deeper than simply lunch counters and ballot boxes. What started as a nonviolent movement to dismantle Jim Crow became an effort to give the poor a sense of self-worth. Hogan elegantly argues that SNCC built an organization that stressed individual action rather than hierarchical control." (Choice Reviews)
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Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights
"With chapters that begin with Colonial America and extend to race in the contemporary South, the authors (British Americanists by perspective) offer effective summaries of the critical issues and significant literature as well as important insights by non-Americans commenting on life in the US." (Choice Reviews)
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Sitting In And Speaking Out: Student Movements In The American South, 1960-1970
"But Turner's contribution is in linking civil rights and antiwar protests. Like so many studies of the radical Left, the book could have illuminated more the reaction of moderate politicians and the conundrums of southern liberals fearful of opposing Lyndon Johnson in 1968. This minor flaw aside, this is a marvelous study of the southern student Left. Outstanding." (Choice Reviews)
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Way up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970
Recent histories devoted to 20th-century African American migration have focused primarily on the two great migrations during which some 5 million people left the South. By contrast, this unique study 'departs from the previous scholarship by examining how African American migrants who stayed in the South transformed the culture and politics of the South from within the South.' (Choice Reviews)
