TY - BOOK ID - 77871046 TI - Dividing lines : municipal politics and the struggle for civil rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma PY - 2002 SN - 0817380981 9780817380984 9780817352998 0817352996 9780817311704 081731170X PB - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political culture KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights movements KW - Culture KW - Political science KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Civil liberation movements KW - Liberation movements (Civil rights) KW - Protest movements (Civil rights) KW - Human rights movements KW - History KW - Civil rights KW - Selma (Ala.) KW - Birmingham (Ala.) KW - Montgomery (Ala.) KW - City of Montgomery (Ala.) KW - City of Birmingham (Ala.) KW - Politics and government KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871046 AB - With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III 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. < ER -