Description: Colburn, Reviews in American History"In this engaging work on Southern whites who sympathized with the Civil Rights Movement, Chappell argues that moderate whites, though lacking a moral commitment to civil rights, played a key role in the movement's success at both the local and national levels.-Virginia Quarterly Review
Brief description: David Chappell teaches history at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Review Quotes: Chappell's is a major piece of historical writing that will be of interest to general readers as well as to more specialized students of the Civil Rights movement in the American South.
--Neil Thorburn, History