Civil Rights Crossroads

Steven F. Lawson, professor of history at Rutgers University, is the author of several books, including Debating the Civil Rights Movement 1945-1968 and Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969.

• Catholic Emancipation, 1800−1829Repeal, 1829−1845Famine, Revolution, Republicanism, 1845−1870Home Rule, 1870−1880Home Rule, 1880−1906The Crisis of Irish Nationalism, 1906−1914The Rose Tree, 1914−1922Unfinished Business, 1922--1994

Civil Rights Crossroads provides a comprehensive and critical survey of the modern civil rights struggle. Lawson's own previous writings have been important pioneering additions to this literature, and Civil Rights Crossroads brings together the accumulated insights of a leading scholar in the field. - Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University ""An important collection of illuminating and provocative essays that explores new dimensions of the black struggle to demolish Jim Crow segregation and second-class citizenship."" - Darlene Clark Hine, author of Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas ""Lawson's books and articles, including those in Civil Rights Crossroads, are characterized by remarkable continuity and growth."" - Journal of Southern History