| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century. By Andrew M. Manis. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2004. xvi, 432 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-86554-761-0. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-86554-958-3.)

There have been two important recent trends in the historiography of the civil rights struggle in the American South. One has been to dilute the concentration on Martin Luther King's national campaign in the 1960s and the consequent legislative achievements of 1964 and 1965, emphasizing instead the local roots of the movement. The other is to read the origins of the struggle back much further than the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955– 1956 or even the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, seminal as these events were. Indeed, historians now stress the continuity of the African Americans' fight for the rights of full citizenship, talking of a long civil rights movement that began with the Emancipation Proclamation. Both these concepts are central to Andrew M. Manis's fine study of relations between the black and white southerners of Macon, Georgia, over the course of the twentieth century.

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