The Shadow of Selma /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Description:	viii, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Selma. Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Selma -- History. Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Selma -- History. African Americans -- Civil rights. Civil rights movements. Civil rights workers. Race relations. Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations. Alabama -- Selma. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11538187

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Other authors / contributors:	Street, Joe, editor. Knight, Henry, 1982- editor.
ISBN:	9780813056692 0813056691
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The Shadow of Selma is the first thorough analysis of the historical importance and legacy of the 1965 campaign for civil rights in Selma, Alabama, and the consequent Voting Rights Act, which is among the most important pieces of legislation in American history. It considers the historical memory of the Selma campaign, particularly examining the competing narratives of Selma in popular media and cinema.

Table of Contents:

Selma and the Voting Rights Act
Selma: the bridge and beyond / Alma Jean Billingslea Brown
Before the bridge: grassroots activism in Selma in the early 1960s / Ben Houston
Nonviolence crowned or de-throned? King's strategy in Selma and its legacy / Peter Ling
"The meat in the coconut": Lyndon Johnson and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 / Mark McLay
Backlash or adjustment? the white south responds to Selma / Tony Badger
"We cannot escape the same challenge": Britain, France, and the US Voting Rights Act / Clive Webb
Media and memory
Mediating Selma: 1965, 2015 / Aniko Bodroghkozy
"They just couldn't write it the way it wasn't anymore": mainstream media narratives and the 1965 Selma Campaign / Mark Walmsley
Sidelining Selma's segregationists: memory, strategy, ideology and agency / George Lewis
"Men and women of god and goodwill everywhere": Selma and the role of religion in civil rights drama / Megan Hunt
The shadow of Selma
The third reconstruction: the racial wealth gap in the post-civil rights south / Devin Fergus
How the rise of colorblind racism opened the door for the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County, Alabama vs. Holder / Barbara Harris Combs
Racial laundering of equality after Shelby County, Alabama vs. Holder / Lynn Mie Itagaki.

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