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By J. Mills Thornton

With this daring delivering from twenty years of study, J. turbines Thornton III provides the tale of the civil rights move from the viewpoint of community-municipal background on the grassroots point. Thornton demonstrates that the flow had strong neighborhood assets in its 3 beginning cities—Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. There, the arcane mechanisms of country and town governance and the missteps of municipal politicians and civic leaders—independent of rising nationwide developments in racial mores—led to the good swell of strength for swap that grew to become the civil rights movement.


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