Danielle L. McGuire, assistant professor at Wayne State University, is the author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Race and Resistance -- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.
John Dittmer, professor emeritus at DePauw University, is the author of The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care. He lives in Fillmore, Indiana.
" Freedom Rights offers readers significant new perspectives on the
civil rights movement's cultural and family politics, expands our
understanding of its organizational bases, incorporates gender as a
vital tool of analysis rather than as contribution history, and
clarifies the evolution of strategies for undermining black
political power in the years since. Its dynamic arguments establish
new standards in the field that will impact scholarly debates for
years to come." -- Katherine Mellen Charron, author of Freedom's
Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark
" Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
highlights new scholarship on the Civil Rights Movement, showing
the importance of lacal politics, for instance, and the value of
arts activism." -- Library Journal
""Freedom Rights not only reconceptualizes the civil rights
movement but also suggests a broader framework for understanding
the global history of freedom struggles. This collection of
outstanding new scholarship sheds light on continuing evolution of
innovative American grassroots activism within a constantly
changing national and international context. Rather than presenting
narrowly-conceived narratives of modern American civil rights
reform, these articles illuminate the transcendent ideals and
transformative strategies emanating from a global freedom struggle
affecting the majority of humanity."--Clayborne Carson, Professor &
Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute,
Stanford University" --
"[...] the insightful, compelling, and readable quality of many of
the chapters makes Freedom Rights worthy of attention for
historians of the 20th-century United States, graduate students,
and perhaps even advanced undergraduates." -- The Journal of
African American History
"A terrific collection of essays reflecting new scholarship on the
civil rights movement, and a fitting tribute to Steven Lawson for
his life's work on the black freedom struggle." -- William H.
Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, Duke University
"Does a brilliant job of bringing together critical examinations of
various agencies, court cases, perspectives, themes, and issues.
The sum of all these parts is a comprehensive view of the
movement's aftermath." -- Cynthia Griggs Fleming, author of Yes We
Did? From King's Dream to Obama's Promise
"Highlights new scholarship on the Civil Rights Movement, showing
the importance of local politics, for instance, and the value of
arts activism." -- Library Journal
"John Dittmer, Danielle L. McGuire, and Steven F. Lawson have each
in their own way revolutionized the historiography of the black
freedom struggle. With Freedom Rights, Dittmer and McGuire bring
together scholars whose provocative and quite readable essays offer
both a fitting tribute to Lawson's influential scholarship and a
road map suggesting new directions for future civil rights study."
-- Todd Moye, author of Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of
World War II
"No short review can do justice to this rich array of recent
scholarship in one of the most exciting areas of American history
research, and that's the long and short of it." -- Indiana Magazine
of History
"Perhaps the collection's greatest strength is that it takes
moments, people, and concepts that could be merely footnotes and
reasons persuasively that those topics deserve much more attention
from scholars." -- H-Net Reviews
"Students, teachers, researchers, and a general audience will find
this volume a lively, engaging, readable, and informative
introduction to what civil rights scholarship looks like today and
where it is headed in the future." -- Journal of American
History
"The essays are great pieces of scholarship that succeed in
expanding the classical notions of the goals of the movement, the
principal actors, and their effects on the quotidian lives of
African Americans." -- Black Diaspora Review
"These valuable essays... exhibit unique and exciting trends within
civil rights historiography." -- North Carolina Historical
Review
"This volume of new historical essays, compiled to honor civil
rights historian Steven F. Lawson, stretches the limits of
scholarly understanding of the civil rights movement. The public
typically sees a simplified, heroic "master narrative" of the Civil
Rights Movement (always wiht capitals) which revolves around the
actions a few national events and figures, heroic non-violence, and
the quest for political and educational opportunity. As these
scholars observe, the civil rights movement (without capitals) was
broader, more complex, and much messier than the master narrative
satisfactorily explains." -- Tennessee Libraries
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