Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia 1940-1980 - Hardcover

Tuck, Stephen G.N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820322652 ISBN 13: 9780820322650

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2001

Synopsis

The first comprehensive history of the civil rights movement in Georgia This sweeping 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, it is 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 where black-white relations were as crude or as nuanced as the outlook of the local sheriff. Beyond Atlanta draws on interviews with almost two hundred people - black and white - who worked for, or actively resisted, the freedom movement. Among the topics Stephen Tuck covers are the absence of consistent support from the movement's national leadership and the frustration and innovation it alternately inspired at the local level. In addition, Tuck reveals friction, along urban-rural and poor-prosperous lines, about movement goals and tactics, and he highlights the often unheralded roles played by African American women, veterans, masons, unions, neighborhood clubs, and local NAACP branches.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen G. N. Tuck is Director of Studies in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820322652
• ISBN 13: 9780820322650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384