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Vol. 10, No. 3: Fall 2004

Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, by J. Mills Thornton III (Review)

by Ralph E. Luker

University of Alabama Press, 2002

If all the South were Alabama and you read the most important book on the Civil Rights movement, it would be Mills Thornton’s Dividing Lines. Historians of the movement everywhere will have to conjure with it.

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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