Description: Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.
Brief description: R. Drew Smith is Scholar-in-Residence in the Leadership Center at Morehouse College. He is the editor of several books, including Freedom's Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa and Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America.
Review Quotes:
"This volume collects essays stretching across time and geographic space to provide a historically and sociologically rich look at historic and contemporary black churches and activism on issues ranging from traditional civil rights concerns to immigrant and gay rights, health care policy, voter suppression, HIV/AIDS, and educational policy ... Highly recommended." -- CHOICE
"It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society ... [the] contributors shed light on distinctive regional dimensions of African American political and church life that bear in significant ways on both the mobilization of civil rights activism and the achievement of its goals." -- Sir Read a Lot