| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy. By Kenneth T. Andrews. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xviii, 265 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-226-02040-1. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-226-02043-6.)

The sociologist Kenneth T. Andrews correctly observes that historians have paid far greater attention to the civil rights movement's origins than to its effects. To rectify the neglect, he has devised a movement infrastructure model that focuses on local leaders, resources, and organizations. Examining "the continuity and transformation of the Mississippi civil rights movement from the early 1960s through the early 1980s," he argues forcefully for the efficacy and the endurance of the community-organizing tradition and objects to the "wrong lessons" that come from an emphasis on "a top-down approach to social change" (pp. 5, 200). Andrews focuses on Mississippi's Bolivar, Holmes, and Madison counties but never does explain his selections, even in a methodological appendix, and he omits Hinds County entirely.

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