BRIAN WARD is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Director of that institution's Martin Luther King Memorial Conference. He has published widely on African-American history and culture and is completing a book on African-American popular music and the civil rights and black power movements.TONY BADGER is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. He previously taught for over twenty years at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco and North Carolina and The New Deal: The Depression Years 1933-40.

• Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; B.Ward & T.Badger - PART 1: ORIGINS - The Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1939-1954; A.Fairclough - 'He Founded a Movement': W.H. Flowers, The Committee on Negro Organizations and the Origins of Black Activism in Arkansas, 1940-1957; J.Kirk - 'Nixon Was The One': Edgar Daniel Nixon, The Montgomery Improvement Association and The Montgomery Bus Boycott; J.White - PART 2: RESPONSES - Fatalism Not Gradualism: Race and the Crisis of Southern Liberalism, 1945-1965; T.Badger - White Liberal Intellectuals, Civil Rights and Gradualism, 1954-1960; W.Jackson - Rethinking African-American Political Thought in the Post-Revolutionary Era; C.Carson - PART 3: REPRESENTATIONS - From Shiloh to Selma: The Impact of the Civil War Centennial on the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, 1961-1965; R.Cook - Touchstones, Authorities and Marian Anderson: The Making of 'I Have A Dream'; K.D.Miller & E.M.Lewis - Politics and Fictional Representation: The Case of the Civil Rights Movement; R.H.King - PART 4: COMPARISONS - The Limits of America: Re-thinking Equality in the Changing Context of British Race Relations; T.Modood - British Responses to Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968; M.Sewell - Nonviolent Resistance to White Supremacy: A Comparison of the American Civil Rights Movement and the South African Defiance Campaigns of the 1950s; G.M.Fredrickson - Index