Benjamin Houston is a lecturer at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. He is the former director of the Remembering African American Pittsburgh oral history project at the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Nashville Way, the first scholarly work and the first history
of civil rights in Nashville since David Halberstam's The Children,
fills a gap in civil rights and southern historiography. It should
be of interest to anyone interested in the history of Nashville and
the African American struggle for racial justice during the
movement for civil rights.--Linda T. Wynn "The Courier"
Houston has effectively revealed the turmoil and struggle behind
the veil of racial etiquette and gentility in this southern
city.--Victoria Wolcott "American Historical Review"
Houston's book details the particular nature of the Nashville
community and the way civil rights unfolded there but also adds to
our understanding of the civil rights movement more broadly. It is
engagingly written, even gripping at times, and its audience should
include the educated bookbuying public in and around
Nashville.--Tracy E. K'Meyer "author of Civil Rights in the Gateway
to the South: Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980"
Nashville, Tennessee had perhaps the most fully formed of the
student-centered civil rights movements that emerged in the early
1960s. Houston tells the story of this movement in substantial
depth in this fine monograph.--D. C. Catsam "Choice"
The civil rights saga of Nashville in the decades following World
War II is a complicated and bittersweet story of struggle and
resistance, change and continuity, success and disappointment; and
Houston captures it all with a rich narrative of black and white
southerners engaged in a historical drama of national and even
international importance. The first book to offer a comprehensive
and balanced study of the city's distinctive racial and movement
cultures, The Nashville Way fills an enormous gap in civil rights
and southern historiography.--Raymond Arsenault "author of Freedom
Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"
Any interested in black power and white response in the South will
find [The Nashville Way] a specific title, perfect for
college-level social issues holdings.--Midwest Book Review
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