The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History.(Book review)

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. By Bobby L. Lovett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 483. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-443-6.)

In The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History, Bobby L. Lovett offers a well-researched, "top-down" account of the struggle for "Negro" equality in Chattanooga, Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville. Focusing primarily on the era from 1935 to the present, Lovett draws on interviews, numerous special collections, manuscripts, papers, newspapers, and secondary sources to weave a wide-ranging ...

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