To Redeem the Soul of America
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Adam Fairclough
With a new afterword

"Splendidly researched, cogently articulated . . . May well represent the finest single piece of published scholarship on the American Civil Rights Movement."—Choice

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"Wholly absorbing . . . Fairclough is an accomplished writer who succeeds in capturing the fear, the exhilaration, the sense of moral ascendancy that energized the early years of the civil rights movement."
—Los Angeles Times

"Splendid . . . One of the finest investigations yet produced of these events that have so decisively altered southern, and American, history."
—Journal of Southern History


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To Redeem the Soul of America looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr., to disclose the full workings of the organization that supported him. As Adam Fairclough reveals the dynamics within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, Andrew Young, and others also played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago. Joining a charismatic leader with an inspired group of activists, the SCLC built a bridge from the black proletariat to the white liberal elite and then, finally, to the halls of Congress and the White House.
Page count: 520 pp.
Illustrated
Trim size: 6 x 9
  

Paper
List price: $26.95
978-0-8203-2346-6
10/5/2001

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Adam Fairclough is the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair of History and Culture of the United States at Leiden University. His books include Martin Luther King, Jr., To Redeem the Soul of America, Teaching Equality, Race and Democracy, and The Star Creek Papers (all available from Georgia).