Beyond Atlanta : the struggle for racial equality in Georgia, 1940-1980
Stephen G. N. Tuck (Author)
"This history of the civil rights movement in the South's largest state tells of many Georgias. On one extreme is Atlanta, a metropolitan center of relative black prosperity and training ground of many movement leaders. On another is Albany, a city deep in the "black belt" of the plantation South and the site of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s greatest civil rights setback. Somewhere in between is yet another Georgia, a Georgia whose communities once constituted hundreds of Jim Crow fiefdoms. In places like "Bad" Baker County near the southern border, or in the relatively moderate town of Rome in the northern hills, black-white relations were as crude or as nuanced as the outlook of the local sheriff."
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Georgia Press, Athens, ©2001