What is it about?
Dividing Lines is a book about the classic civil rights movement in Alabama and is representative of a historiographical trend of seeing the movement differently from a local perspective: for example, Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma Alabama.
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The review summarizes Thornton's hefty volume and may inspire you to spend the time reading it!
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Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling
University of Nottingham
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This page is a summary of: , Journal of American History, March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.2307/3660487.
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