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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; THE SHADOW OF SELMA; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Selma and the Voting Rights Act; 1. Selma: The Bridge and Beyond; 2. Before the Bridge: Grassroots Activism in Selma in the Early 1960s; 3. Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned? King's Strategy in Selma and Its Legacy; 4. ""The Meat in the Coconut"": Lyndon Johnson and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; 5. Backlash or Adjustment? The White South Responds to Selma; 6. ""We Cannot Escape the Same Challenge"": Britain, France, and the U.S. Voting Rights Act; Part 2. Media and Memory |
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7. Mediating Selma: 1965, 20158. "They Couldn't Just Write It the Way It Wasn't Anymore": Mainstream Media Narratives and the 1965 Selma Campaign; 9. Sidelining Selma's Segregationists: Memory, Strategy, Ideology, and Agency; 10. "Men and Women of God and Goodwill Everywhere": Selma and the Role of Religion in Civil Rights Drama; Part 3. The Myth of a Color-Blind America; 11. The Third Reconstruction: The Racial Wealth Gap in the Post-Civil Rights South; 12. How the Rise of Color-Blind Racism Opened the Door for the Supreme Court Decision in Shelby County v. Holder |
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13. The Racial Laundering of Equality after Shelby County v. HolderList of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The Shadow of Selma is the first thorough analysis of the historical importance and legacy of the 1965 campaign for civil rights in Selma, Alabama, and the consequent Voting Rights Act, which is among the most important pieces of legislation in American history. It considers the historical memory of the Selma campaign, particularly examining the competing narratives of Selma in popular media and cinema |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 20, 2019) |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Selma
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Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Selma -- History
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Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Selma -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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HISTORY -- African American.
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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Civil rights movements
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Civil rights workers
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Race relations
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Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Alabama -- Selma
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Street, Joe, editor.
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Knight, Henry, 1982- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813052243 |
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0813052246 |
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