In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the Afric

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An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to

After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the acc