| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954–72. By Gretchen Cassel Eick. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xiv + 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

This illuminating study of the black freedom struggle in Wichita, Kansas, argues convincingly that the Civil Rights movement was not only a southern regional struggle, but was also a national campaign that sought to liberate African Americans from their social, economic, and political subordination. By illuminating the dynamism and national scope of the Civil Rights movement through the lens of a midwestern city and its substantial connections to the national movement, Gretchen Eick offers a new model of civil rights scholarship. Indeed, she emphasizes the interconnectedness of region, race, class, gender, resistance, central authority, and grassroots leadership. This history will surely encourage many, perhaps grudgingly at times, to abandon some of their long-held beliefs about the primacy of the southern front of the Civil Rights movement. It will also remind readers that local civil rights studies, when placed within the proper national context, will elevate our understanding of the importance of studying the movement at the local level and holistically. . . .

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