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title:But for Birmingham : The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
author:Eskew, Glenn T.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807823635
print isbn13:9780807823637
ebook isbn13:9780807861325
language:English
subjectCivil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century, African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century, Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century, African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th c
publication date:1997
lcc:F334.B69N435 1997eb
ddc:323.1/196073/0761781
subject:Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century, African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century, Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century, African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th c
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But for Birmingham
The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
Glenn T. Eskew
THE
UNIVERSITY
OF NORTH
CAROLINA
PRESS
CHAPEL HILL
AND LONDON
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1997 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Set in Electra by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: the local and national movements in the civil rights struggle/by Glenn T. Eskew.
p. cm. Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.) University of Georgia, 1993. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2363-5 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8078-4667-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Civil rights movements Alabama Birmingham History 20th century. 2. Afro-Americans Civil rights Alabama Birmingham History 20th century. 3. Civil rights movements United States History 20th century. 4. Afro-Americans Civil rights History 20th century. 5. Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations. I. Title.
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Portions of this work appeared previously, in somewhat different form, as "The Freedom Ride Riot and Political Reform in Birmingham, 1961-1963," The Alabama Review 49, no. 3 (July 1996): 181-220, 1996 The University of Alabama Press, and "Bombingham: Black Protest in Postwar Birmingham," The Historian 59, no. 2 (Winter 1997): 371-90, and are reprinted here with permission.
Page v
For my mother and father
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction. Stalemate
3
One
The National Movement
19
Two
Bombingham
53
Three
Bull's Birmingham
85
Four
The Local Movement
121
Five
Businessmen's Reform
153
Six
Momentum
193
Seven
Another Albany?
217
Eight
The Children's Crusade
259
Nine
But for Birmingham
299
Epilogue. Ambiguous Resolution
333
Notes
341
Bibliography
399
Index
419

Page ix
Illustrations
Birmingham skyline, ca. 1952
5
Map of North Smithfield
55
Bomb-blasted house of Bishop S.L. Green
58
Map of predominantly black neighborhoods
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