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Summary
In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it. Holt conveys a sense of these developments as a social movement, one that shaped its participants even as they shaped it. He emphasizes the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders. This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of "movement" back into our image and understanding of the civil rights movement.
Author Biography
Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago and the author of Children of Fire: A History of African Americans and The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Carrie's Rebellion
Chapter 1: Before Montgomery
Chapter 2: Communities Organizing for Change: New South Cities
Chapter 3: Communities Organizing for Change along the New South-Old South Divide
Chapter 4: Organizing in "the American Congo": Mississippi's Freedom Summer and Its Aftermath
Chapter 5: Freedom Movements in the North and the Quest for Black Power
Chapter 6: Legacies: "Freedom is a Constant Struggle"
Notes and References
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