Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement

From: The Journal of Negro Education | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement, by Tom Dent. New York: William Morrow, 1997. 400 pp. $25.00, cloth.

Reviewed by Ralph Edwards, Northeastern University.

In Southern Journey, Tom Dent's captivating account of his 1991 odyssey to early civil rights venues, we receive one answer to a lingering and troublesome question: Why, after such hopeful beginnings, did the civil rights movement lose its momentum, then die? One explanation, suggested from Dent's interviews with several of its early grass-roots leaders is that the movement eventually reached an insurmountable ...

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