This is an important, well-researched, clearly written, and
judiciously argued study that enriches the already extensive
literature of the modern African-American freedom struggle.
Ralph...sees King within a broader context, as part of a social
movement. The Chicago protest movement of 1966 and 1967...marked a
crucial transition in King's life and the development of the SCLC.
Ralph's book, therefore, raises crucial questions regarding the
effectiveness of King's nonviolent struggles as a means of
confronting the social and economic problems of the era after the
major civil rights reforms. This book is clearly the best on the
subject.--Clayborne Carson, editor-in-Chief, Martin Luther King,
Jr., Papers
"Northern Protest" makes a major contribution to our understanding
of American race relations in the twentieth century...Ralph is
equally well informed about Dr. King and his advisers and about
Mayor Daley and his circle, and he tells his story with vigor and
dramatic force.--David Herbert Donald, Harvard University
James Ralph has written the fullest and most perceptive account yet
to appear of the 1966 civil-rights campaign in Chicago, a crucial
event in the history of the movement. He has traced the origins of
the campaign in the politics of Chicago's African-American
community; he has described the uneasy relationship between local
activists and the national civil-rights leaders who came to their
aid; and he has explained why the 1966 campaign produced reactions
in Washington so different from those the earlier campaigns in the
South had created. In the process, he has helped illuminate the
transformation of racial politics in America from the heroic days
of the early civil-rights movement to the more fractious and
ambiguous battles of the late 1960s and beyond.--Alan Brinkley,
Columbia University
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