A Different Day

“A useful addition to studies of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. . . . De Jong sets the achievements of that struggle in the perspective of a much longer and larger protest tradition not often studied. . . . [The book] focuses on the experiences of civil rights workers in rural areas, while many other studies focus on urban areas.” — CHOICE

“De Jong’s book provides a nuanced portrait of the civil rights movement by showing how local, 'ordinary' people shaped the movement to meet their own needs.” — Journal of American History

“A provocative analysis of the civil rights struggle in Louisiana. . . . There are many things to admire in this sympathetic and sophisticated analysis.” — Journal of Southern History

“In demonstrating how large-scale economic change in the South impacted upon the lives of African Americans at the local level, A Different Day provides civil rights historians with a more 'interactive' explanation of why the civil rights movement emerged when it did.” — Journal of Contemporary History

“Greta de Jong’s well-written and well-researched book frames the freedom struggle in rural Louisiana as a long, painful, and not entirely successful movement. In rural areas, blacks relied less upon national civil rights organizations than upon their own ideas and armed self-defense.” — Pete Daniel, author of Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s##