Description: Historian Glenn Eskew describes the changing face of Birmingham's civil rights campaign, from the politics of accommodation practiced by the city's black bourgeoisie in the 1950s to local pastor Fred L. Shuttlesworth's groundbreaking use of nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. 25 illustrations.
Brief description: Glenn T. Eskew is associate professor of history at Georgia State University.
Review Quotes:
"Eskew's thorough research and judicious interpretation place But for Birmingham in the first rank of the many Civil Rights monographs now appearing. It is one book for which the evaluation 'essential reading' is appropriate." -- August Meier, general editor, Blacks in the New World