From Selma to Montgomery : The Long March to Freedom
In five concise chapters bolstered by primary documents including civil rights legislation, speeches, and news coverage, Combs introduces the Civil Rights Movement to undergraduates through the courageous actions of the freedom marchers.
- Paperback | 228 pages
- 152 x 226 x 18mm | 339.99g
- 19 Nov 2013
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- London, United Kingdom
- 5 Halftones, black and white
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- Todd C. Shaw, author of Now is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism
"[Barbara Combs] focuses attention on the movement's lesser known local activists, which rightfully de-centers national figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., in the movement's narrative. Moreover, linking the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the 1965 Voting Rights Act to contemporary discussions of the Voting Rights Act's legacies is a timely and important scholarly intervention."
-Clarence Lang, author of Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
"Barbara Harris Combs offers a complex and nuanced approach to the study of the 1965 march to Montgomery, Alabama, in the context of black Americans' freedom struggles. From Selma to Montgomery is a wonderfully crafted tool for both history and sociology undergraduate classrooms, and a scaffold from which to teach interdisciplinary methodology, thinking, and questioning."
-David Ponton III, Rice University, USA in The Journal of Southern History
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