Greater Freedom

Charles W. McKinney, Jr. is an assistant professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.

McKinney’s book is meticulous in its research and is a welcome treatment, in language and assessment, of the vitality of local civil rights struggles to a unified national movement that changed America.

• Chapter 1 List of Abbreviations Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Map of Wilson County Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 1. Building Freedom from the Ground Up Chapter 7 2. The Idea of Citizenship Was Never Greater: Organizing the Foundations of a Movement Chapter 8 3. "A Little Too Much for a Self-Respecting White Man to Swallow": Brown and its Aftermath Chapter 9 4. We Began to Question Where We Never Questioned Before: The Struggle to Build a Movement Chapter 10 5. Somewhere Down the Line We Decided to Organize: Integration, Housing and the Ascendancy of "Lower Income Negro Citizens" Chapter 10 Conclusion: Race, Class, Memory and the Pursuit of Greater Freedom Chapter 11 Selected Bibliography Chapter 12 Index