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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Electronic book |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: (DLC) 2012008404 |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin Houston |
ISBN: | 9780820343280 0820343285 |
OCLC Number: | 816042084 |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Contents: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Nashville Way; One. A Manner of Segregation: Lived Race Relations and Racial Etiquette; Two. The Triumph of Tokenism: Public School Desegregation; Three. The Shame and the Glory: The 1960 Sit-ins; Four. The Kingdom or Individual Desires?: Movement and Resistance during the 1960s; Five. Black Power/White Power: Militancy in Late 1960s Nashville; Six. Cruel Mockeries: Renewing a City; Epilogue. Achieving Justice; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
Series Title: | Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South. |
Responsibility: | Benjamin Houston. |
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Nashville, Tennessee had perhaps the most fully formed of the student-centered civil rights movements that emerged in the early 1960s. Houston tells the story of this movement in substantial depth in this fine monograph.--D. C. Catsam "Choice " Any interested in black power and white response in the South will find [The Nashville Way] a specific title, perfect for college-level social issues holdings.--Midwest Book Review The civil rights saga of Nashville in the decades following World War II is a complicated and bittersweet story of struggle and resistance, change and continuity, success and disappointment; and Houston captures it all with a rich narrative of black and white southerners engaged in a historical drama of national and even international importance. The first book to offer a comprehensive and balanced study of the city's distinctive racial and movement cultures, The Nashville Way fills an enormous gap in civil rights and southern historiography.--Raymond Arsenault "author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice " Houston has effectively revealed the turmoil and struggle behind the veil of racial etiquette and gentility in this southern city.--Victoria Wolcott "American Historical Review " The Nashville Way, the first scholarly work and the first history of civil rights in Nashville since David Halberstam's The Children, fills a gap in civil rights and southern historiography. It should be of interest to anyone interested in the history of Nashville and the African American struggle for racial justice during the movement for civil rights.--Linda T. Wynn "The Courier " Houston's book details the particular nature of the Nashville community and the way civil rights unfolded there but also adds to our understanding of the civil rights movement more broadly. It is engagingly written, even gripping at times, and its audience should include the educated bookbuying public in and around Nashville.--Tracy E. K'Meyer "author of Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South: Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980 " Read more...
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- Race relations.
- Tennessee -- Nashville.
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