Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement 9780195386592, 0195386590, 9780199932016, 0199932018

In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tom

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English Pages xi, 578 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Year 2012;2011

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Table of contents :
"Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism --
The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957 --
Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959 --
"Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958 --
More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959 --
Seeking redress in the streets : the student movement's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961 --
A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964 --
Local people as agents of constitutional change : the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964 --
"New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967 --
A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1968 --
An end to an "annual agony" : the black backlash against Brown and busing, 1969-1974 --
"Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.

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