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

by J. Mills Thornton III (Author)
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Presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots level

Thornton demonstrates that the movement had powerful local sources in its three birth cities—Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. There, the arcane mechanisms of state and city governance and the missteps of municipal politicians and civic leaders—independent of emerging national trends in racial mores—led to the great swell of energy for change that became the civil rights movement.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0817352996
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0817352998
  3. Publisher
    University Alabama Press
  4. Publication date
    January 29, 2006
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6.13 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
  7. Print length
    748 pages
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“Thornton's opus is the most important book to be written on the civil rights movement in a decade. . . . It is impossible to truly understand the movement without reading, absorbing, and analyzing this first-rate study of three Alabama cities in turmoil.”
—Douglas Brinkley, Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History at the University of New Orleans
 

“Dividing Lines will quickly come to be regarded as the most original and interpretively significant work of civil rights movement historiography to have been published within the past 15 or 20 years, or perhaps simply ever.”
—David J. Garrow, author of Bearing the Cross
 

About the Author

J. Mills Thornton III is Professor of History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and author of Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama 1800-1860.
 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Alabama Press (January 29, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 748 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0817352996
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0817352998
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.56 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
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John Cork
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful and detailed history
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As someone who has researched and studied the civil rights movement, I was impressed and moved by J. Mills Thornton's rich examination of how a movement that changed America sprang forth in three key cities - Montgomery, Alabama (my home town), Birmingham, and Selma. The famous dictum that 'all politics is local' has never read more true. What Thornton does is take the reader inside the world of local politics, re-introducing the readers to the importance of what may seem like small, local decissions, and how even one city commission election can change the course of history for a nation. This book stands with Carry Me Home, Parting the Waters, and Pillar of Fire as essential reading for those who truely want to understand our all too recent history of race, discrimination, and civil rights. While the text of the book is 583 pages (before notes and a detailed index), it is a worthy and enlightening read. Once read, I doubt anyone will miss voting in a local election again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good text
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2013
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Bought the book for a class and a report. It was much more informative than the description of the book gave it credit for...worth my money!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars seminal book
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This is one of those few books that will change the way you see the world. It is a tragic--and I don't say that loosely--that Dividing LInes is an obscure book that even people who read deeply in civil rights literature don't know. You have to read this book. It's that important.
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