Studies in African American History and Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations: Atlanta GA 1946-1981 (Hardcover)

This study is the story of the local Civil Rights Movement and race relations in Atlanta Georgia from 1946 to 1981. Most examinations of the Civil Rights Movement have been written from a national perspective. These studies have presented local African American protest movements as part of a national campaign for civil rights that lasted approximately from 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott to 1968 the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In this context demonstrations in Montgomery Greensboro Albany Birmingham Selma and Memphis have been viewed as prototypical African American protest movements and milestones in this national campaign for civil rights. First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company.