Patrick D. Jones is Assistant Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska.
"Selma of the North" is a solid entry into the expanding bookshelf
on civil rights activism in the North, offering what Jones rightly
calls "another tile to the mosaic" of studies about the struggle
for racial justice in the twentieth century.--Amanda I.
Seligman"H-Net" (04/01/2009)
A well-researched and fascinating narrative...Jones has produced an
outstanding study of the civil rights movement in Milwaukee which
should prove a model for investigations of other Northern
cities.--Ron Briley"History News Network" (04/19/2009)
Anyone living in Milwaukee in the '60s and old enough to be aware
will recall a time of sharp tension. A riot erupted in the inner
city during the summer of 1967, a year of unrest around the nation,
and a white Roman Catholic priest organized black youth to march
against the segregation that confined African Americans to
Milwaukee's poorest, most run-down quarter. Whites responded with
violence. And the police were not amused by challenges to the
status quo. The story is recounted with lucid scholarship in "The
Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee".--David
Luhrssen"Express Milwaukee" (05/12/2009)
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