Book World: What made the civil rights movement successful - and what came next
Clifford Thompson, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
By Thomas C. Holt
By Chad Sanders
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Thomas C. Holt s slim volume, The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights, achieves in just 120 pages of text a comprehensiveness that belies its length. What makes that possible is that Holt focuses on the civil rights movement itself rather than the personalities involved. We do not get, say, an assessment of the character of Martin Luther King Jr. or speculation about Ralph David Abernathy s envy of his more famous best friend. What we do get is a fascinating breakdown of the movement s phases as well as a look at the groundwork that made the successes possible.