| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality since 1865. By Peter F. Lau. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv, 334 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8131-2393-3.)

In Democracy Rising, Peter F. Lau argues that black South Carolinians adopted a contingency- based, improvised approach to the civil rights struggle that allowed them to constantly shift their emphasis to engage the possibilities of the moment. When their activism brought out the brown-shirt tendencies of some white South Carolinians, which was often, those in the movement recalibrated. When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) office stuck to its legalistic course of action, black South Carolinians found different means to press for justice in other areas. Lau hopes his approach will enable historians to move past the usual civil rights narratives that criticize radicals for pushing too hard or the naacp for not pushing hard enough.

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