Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Brian Ward

Tony Badger

PART I: ORIGINS

The Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1939-54

Adam Fairclough

`He Founded a Movement': W.H. Flowers, the Committee on Negro Organizations and the Origins of Black Activism in Arkansas, 1940-57

John Kirk

`Nixon Was the One': Edgar Daniel Nixon, the MIA and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

John White

PART II: RESPONSES

Fatalism, Not Gradualism: Race and the Crisis of Southern Liberalism, 1945-65

Tony Badger

White Liberal Intellectuals, Civil Rights and Gradualism, 1954-60

Walter A. Jackson

Rethinking African-American Political Thought in the Post-Revolutionary Era

Clayborne Carson

PART III: REPRESENTATIONS

From Shiloh to Selma: The Impact of the Civil War Centennial on the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, 1961-65

Robert Cook

Touchstones, Authorities and Marian Anderson: The Making of `I Have A Dream'

Keith D. Miller

Emily M. Lewis

Politics and Fictional Representation: The Case of the Civil Rights Movement

Richard H. King

PART IV: COMPARISONS

The Limits of America: Rethinking Equality in the Changing Context of British Race Relations

Tariq Modood

British Responses to Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights, Movement, 1954-68

Mike Sewell

Non-violent Resistance to White Supremacy: A Comparison of the American Civil Rights Movement and the South African Defiance Campaigns of the 1950s

George M. Fredrickson

Index