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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. <

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Underestimated and Misperceived -- 2. Of Creole Heritage -- 3. Educating Alex -- 4. Southern Exodus -- 5. Preparing for a Legal Career -- 6. Return to New Orleans -- 7. Meeting Lucille -- 8. Growing Community Involvement -- 9. The War Years -- 10. NAACP Lawyer -- 11. Law and Fatherhood -- 12. "Separate but Equal" Strengthened in the Face of Desegregation -- 13. Desegregation of Primary and Secondary Schools -- 14. The Politician -- 15. Desegregation Battles after Brown -- 16. Enforcing Brown's Mandate in New Orleans Grade Schools -- 17. Catholics and Desegregation -- 18. More to the Desegregation Mandate -- 19. Reconstructing Public Education -- 20. More Direct Action -- 21. Courts Are the Way -- 22. Race against Time -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Illustrations follow page.