| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Adam Green. Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 306. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $35.00.

The story of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and the rise of the civil rights movement is well known, as is the role of the media, especially television news, in burning the image of the struggle for equality into the public consciousness. Adam Green has assembled an effective argument that an overlapping, slightly earlier era also fostered the creation of another distinctively self-conscious version of African American culture on the national level by the mid-1950s. Self-awareness and pride among the black middle class did not grow out of protests and confrontations with police dogs; instead, it had to be created out of elements drawn from the media, from consumer culture, from efforts by the black political establishment, and from many other sources. And, Green argues, Chicago's black community played a special role in that national process.

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