After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the acc

After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the acc

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mytholog

A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement,

No other book about the civil rights movement captures the drama and impact of the black struggle for equality better than Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1