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Book Review


In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South. By Cynthia Griggs Fleming. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xx, 349 pp. Cloth, $72.00, ISBN 0-7425-0810-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7425-0811-0.)
In the Shadow of Selma is a study of Wilcox County, which lies in Alabama's black belt. It is next to Dallas County, of which Selma is the county seat. Despite her book's oblique and somewhat overarching title, Cynthia Griggs Fleming offers an illuminating analysis that exhibits many of the strengths of the community study. Its tight focus and long chronology permit a sweeping narrative that starts in Reconstruction and ends in the present day. Its use of oral history brings ordinary people onto the stage, recovering events and thoughts that often left no written traces. . . .
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