The shadow of Selma /edited by Joe Street and Henry Knight Lozano. - Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, (c)2018. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 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 volume Holder 13. The Racial Laundering of Equality after Shelby County volume HolderList of Contributors; Index



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African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Selma.
Civil rights movements--History.--Alabama--Selma
Civil rights workers--History.--Alabama--Selma


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F334 / .S533 2018