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Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma (review)

Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham,... SC 10.3-Books 8/9/04 4:02 PM Page 102 “I hate your hills white with dogwood or pink with redbud in spring as if you invented hope, as if in the middle of red clay, limestone outcroppings, and oak trees dead with fungus something slight and beautiful should make us smile.” Neal is, of course, from Tennessee. ........................................................................................................................ Dividing Lines Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma By J. Mills Thornton III University of Alabama Press, 2002 733 pp. Cloth $59.95 Reviewed by Ralph E. Luker, coeditor of the first two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, author of The Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement, and editor of the essays, sermons, and speeches of the Reverend Vernon Johns. 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. Conjuring with Dividing Lines will not be cheap or easy. The publisher says it has been twenty years in the making, but Thornton interviewed many of its prin- ciple characters twenty-five years ago. Indeed, his book is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma (review)

Southern Cultures , Volume 10 (3) – Aug 24, 2004

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2004 Center for the Study of the American South.
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1534-1488

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SC 10.3-Books 8/9/04 4:02 PM Page 102 “I hate your hills white with dogwood or pink with redbud in spring as if you invented hope, as if in the middle of red clay, limestone outcroppings, and oak trees dead with fungus something slight and beautiful should make us smile.” Neal is, of course, from Tennessee. ........................................................................................................................ Dividing Lines Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma By J. Mills Thornton III University of Alabama Press, 2002 733 pp. Cloth $59.95 Reviewed by Ralph E. Luker, coeditor of the first two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, author of The Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement, and editor of the essays, sermons, and speeches of the Reverend Vernon Johns. 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. Conjuring with Dividing Lines will not be cheap or easy. The publisher says it has been twenty years in the making, but Thornton interviewed many of its prin- ciple characters twenty-five years ago. Indeed, his book is

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Published: Aug 24, 2004

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