After the Dream: Black and White Southerners Since 1965

by John A. Salmond and Timothy J. Minchin

Book Overview

Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech, King declared that segregation was "on its deathbed" and that the movement had already achieved significant milestones. Although the civil rights movement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813129788
• ISBN13: 9780813129785
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"