In the Shadow of Selma

The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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On March 7, 1965, voting rights demonstrators were brutally beaten as they crossed the Edmund Petis bridge in Selma, Alabama. One of the most-publicized incidents of the civil rights campaign, images from that day have been seared into the nation's consciousness. Yet little has been written about the civil rights events in the surrounding counties, the vast sections of the rural south. Cynthia Griggs Fleming addresses this gap by bringing to light the struggle for equality of the citizens of Wilcox County, Alabama. Although right next door to Selma, their story has been largely ignored. Through the eyes of the residents of the county, Fleming relates a struggle punctuated by cowardice and courage, audacity and timidity, fear and foolishness. And, in the end, the entrenched power structure refused to yield and the county remains segregated to this day.Personal and compelling, In the Shadow of Selma is essential reading for everyone interested in the continuing struggle for civil rights in the United States.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-02-16
Mått:162 x 227 x 21 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742508118

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Cynthia Griggs Fleming is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has written extensively on the civil rights movement of the 1960s and is the author of Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson.

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Cynthia Griggs Fleming has performed a remarkable feat. She has made the black freedom struggle in Wilcox County Alabama as compelling to read about as that in the better known, neighboring town of Selma in Dallas County. For all those interested in untold stories of the civil rights movement, this is the place to start. Simply put, this book is one of the finest we have in bringing together local and national, social and political histories of the civil rights struggle not just from 1954–1965, but throughout the entire twentieth century.

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Preface: The Forgotten Rural Black PoorIntroduction: You'll Git Dar after WhileChapter 1: Disfranchisement, Despair, and DisillusionmentChapter 2: Onward Christian Soldiers: The Coming of the Missionaries during the Early Years, 1883–1930Chapter 3: New Negroes in the Cotton Field: The Great Depression and Gee’s BendChapter 4: Making the World Safe for Democracy? What About Wilcox County?Chapter 5: VoteChapter 6: Ain’t Gonna Study War No More: The Struggle to Desegregate Wilcox County’s SchoolsChapter 7: After the MovementChapter 8: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same