Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma

by J. Mills Thornton III

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081731170X
• ISBN13: 9780817311704
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"