Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South (eBook)

Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980

Tracy E. K'Meyer (Autor)

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2009
422 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-3920-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The struggles of the civil rights movement were not limited to the Deep South. Although states like Alabama and Mississippi receive the most attention from historians, civil rights leaders were active across the country, challenging racial stereotypes and working to end discrimination in cities large and small. Louisville, Kentucky's unique status as a border city between the North, South, and Midwest presented local civil rights leaders with fertile ground on which to pursue their agenda and their efforts would foreshadow the future direction of the national movement. Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South: Louisville, Kentucky, 1945--1980, fills a void by focusing on four decades of Louisville's civil rights history. Using a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, including oral history records of movement participants, Tracy E. K'Meyer connects the movement in Louisville to related movements in other cities in the region and across the nation. Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South offers insight into how America's race relations got to where they are today, and clues to their future direction.

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A noted civil rights historian examines Louisville as a cultural border city where the black freedom struggle combined northern and southern tactics.Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South. This border identity has shaped the city's race relations throughout its history. Louisville's black citizens did not face entrenched restrictions against voting and civic engagement, yet the city still bore the marks of Jim Crow segregation in public accommodations.In response to Louisville's unique blend of racial problems, activists employed northern models of voter mobilization and lobbying, as well as methods of civil disobedience usually seen in the South. They also crossed traditional barriers between the movements for racial and economic justice to unite in common action.In Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South, Tracy E. K'Meyer provides a groundbreaking analysis of Louisville's uniquely hybrid approach to the civil rights movement. Defining a border as a space where historical patterns and social concerns overlap, K'Meyer argues that broad coalitions of Louisvillians waged long-term, interconnected battles for social justice."e;The definitive book on the city's civil rights history."e; -Louisville Courier-Journal

Autor

lt;P>Tracy E. K'Meyer is associate professor of U.S. history at the University of Louisville. She is the author of numerous articles on the civil rights movement and race relations, as well as the book Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Anne Braden • Black Power in Louisville • Black Six • books on desegregation • busing during Civil Rights Movement • busing in Kentucky • Carl Braden • civil rights history • civil rights in Kentucky • Civil rights in Louisville • civil rights movement scholarship • desegration of school districts • history of Kentucky • James Crumlin • Kentucky Civil Liberties Union • Kentucky civil rights history • Kentucky desegregation • racism in Louisville, KY • Ruth Bryant
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-3920-1 / 0813139201
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3920-3 / 9780813139203