Title: The Pain and the Promise
Review: A superb study of the civil rights movement in one city that has direct meaning for all communities, north and south. The author traces the sources of the strength of the activists, but does not neglect their weaknesses or mistakes. Covering the period from 1945 to the present, the book gives a rich sense of what the struggle for (and against) civil rights meant then and means now.
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