The shadow of Selma / edited by Joe Street and Henry Knight Lozano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Street, Joe, editor.

Knight, Henry, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Selma.

African Americans.

Civil rights workers.

History.

Civil rights movements.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Selma (Ala.)--Race relations.

Selma (Ala.).

Civil rights movements--Alabama--Selma--History.

Civil rights workers--Alabama--Selma--History.

Race relations.

Alabama--Selma.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2018]

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Joe Street and Henry Knight Lozano

Part 1. 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 / Benjamin 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

Part 2. 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

Part 3. The myth of a color-blind America. The third reconstruction : the racial wealth gap in the post-civil rights south / Devin Fergus

How the rise of color-blind racism opened the door for the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder / Barbara Harris Combs

The racial laundering of equality after Shelby County v. Holder / Lynn Mie Itagaki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813056692

0813056691

OCLC:

982651136