Beyond Atlanta
Subtitle: the struggle for racial equality in Georgia, 1940-1980
By: Stephen G.N. Tuck.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century.; Georgia -- Race relations.
Description: "This history of the civil rights movement in the South's largest state tells of many Georgias. On one extreme is Atlanta, a metropolitan center of relative black prosperity and training ground of many movement leaders. On another is Albany, a city deep in the "black belt" of the plantation South and the site of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s greatest civil rights setback. Somewhere in between is yet another Georgia, a Georgia whose communities once constituted hundreds of Jim Crow fiefdoms.

In places like "Bad" Baker County near the southern border, or in the relatively moderate town of Rome in the northern hills, black-white relations were as crude or as nuanced as the outlook of the local sheriff.".

"Beyond Atlanta draws on interviews with almost two hundred people - black and white - who worked for, or actively resisted, the freedom movement. Among the topics Stephen Tuck covers are the absence of consistent support from the movement's national leadership and the frustration and innovation it alternately inspired at the local level.

In addition, Tuck reveals friction along urban-rural and poor-prosperous lines about movement goals and tactics, and he highlights the often unheralded roles played by African American women, veterans, masons, unions, neighborhood clubs, and local NAACP branches."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. First Challenges to Jim Crow after 1940 / 9; title: 2. The Upsurge of Black Protest across Georgia, 1943-1946 / 40; title: 3. The Effects of the White Supremacist Backlash on Black Protest, 1948-1960 / 74; title: 4. Direct Action Protest in Georgia's Cities, 1960-1965 / 107; title: 5. Protest in Rural Georgia: SNCC's Southwest Georgia Project, 1962-1967 / 58; title: 6. Black Protest after the Federal Civil Rights Legislation of 1964-1965 / 192; title: Conclusion / 244; title: Notes / 253; title: Bibliography / 305; title: Index / 323.