Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago and the author of Children of Fire: A History of African Americans and The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century.

• AcknowledgementsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Carrie's RebellionChapter 1: Before MontgomeryChapter 2: Communities Organizing for Change: New South CitiesChapter 3: Communities Organizing for Change along the New South-Old South DivideChapter 4: Organizing in "the American Congo": Mississippi's Freedom Summer and Its AftermathChapter 5: Freedom Movements in the North and the Quest for Black PowerChapter 6: Legacies: "Freedom is a Constant Struggle" Notes and ReferencesFurther Readings

With this latest work, Holt envisions a more complete Civil Rights Movement, one that reveals exactly what was at stake for Black Americans at the micro and macro levels of the time in their quest for equality...This book holds up a mirror to a pivotal, progressive, and painful time in this nation's past, which is precisely what Americans need more of right now.

Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago and the author of Children of Fire: A History of African Americans and The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century.

• AcknowledgementsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Carrie's RebellionChapter 1: Before MontgomeryChapter 2: Communities Organizing for Change: New South CitiesChapter 3: Communities Organizing for Change along the New South-Old South DivideChapter 4: Organizing in "the American Congo": Mississippi's Freedom Summer and Its AftermathChapter 5: Freedom Movements in the North and the Quest for Black PowerChapter 6: Legacies: "Freedom is a Constant Struggle" Notes and ReferencesFurther Readings

With this latest work, Holt envisions a more complete Civil Rights Movement, one that reveals exactly what was at stake for Black Americans at the micro and macro levels of the time in their quest for equality...This book holds up a mirror to a pivotal, progressive, and painful time in this nation's past, which is precisely what Americans need more of right now.

Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago and the author of Children of Fire: A History of African Americans and The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century.

• AcknowledgementsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Carrie's RebellionChapter 1: Before MontgomeryChapter 2: Communities Organizing for Change: New South CitiesChapter 3: Communities Organizing for Change along the New South-Old South DivideChapter 4: Organizing in "the American Congo": Mississippi's Freedom Summer and Its AftermathChapter 5: Freedom Movements in the North and the Quest for Black PowerChapter 6: Legacies: "Freedom is a Constant Struggle" Notes and ReferencesFurther Readings

With this latest work, Holt envisions a more complete Civil Rights Movement, one that reveals exactly what was at stake for Black Americans at the micro and macro levels of the time in their quest for equality...This book holds up a mirror to a pivotal, progressive, and painful time in this nation's past, which is precisely what Americans need more of right now.