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Book Review

Canada and the United States



Stephen G. N. Tuck. Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940–1980. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2001. Pp. x, 341. $50.00.

Stephen G. N. Tuck joins the new British invasion, which uses not the Ed Sullivan Show as its venue of entry but, primarily, university presses. The more recent invasion will not likely rock American culture from a conformist smugness as did the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and even Herman's Hermits, but participants—including Adam Fairclough, Tony Badger, Brian Ward, and Clive Webb—have made important contributions to American civil rights historiography. Tuck has written a book that qualifies him for first-class passage to America. 1
     Using works on Mississippi and Louisiana as models, Tuck examines the civil rights movement in communities—large and small, urban and rural—throughout Georgia from the eve of World War II to the 1970s. Surveying an entire state, Tuck argues, "highlights the full diversity and complexity" of the movement (p. 8). Leadership, initiatives, strategies, goals, and accomplishments varied from place to place. Atlanta's more affluent black population was primarily interested in "social betterment," for example, while activists in the rural black belt tended to focus on segregation and voting rights (p. 58). Each community had a "style" and "story" of its own, regardless of commonalities in size, location, economies, and racial demographics. . . .


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