Beyond Integration
The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-1980
By J. Michael Butler
346 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 22 halftones, 10 figs., 1 tables, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2747-2
Published: May 2016 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-2748-9
Published: April 2016
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Awards & distinctions
Silver Medalist, General Nonfiction, Florida Book Awards
Offering a new perspective on the literature of the black freedom struggle, Beyond Integration reveals how with each legal step taken toward racial equality, notions of black inferiority became more entrenched, reminding us just how deeply racism remained--and still remains--in our society.
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J. Michael Butler is professor of history at Flagler College.
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“An important topic and valuable study, J. Michael Butler’s work offers insight into aspects of the civil rights movement that have not yet had this kind of attention. Clear and focused, Beyond Integration makes an important contribution to our knowledge about the movement outside the spotlight and the challenges African Americans faced in influencing public policy when they were an electoral minority.”--Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo
“Beyond Integration does a superb job of using the civil rights movement in Pensacola, Florida, to tell larger truths about United States history. Arguing that the ‘long civil rights movement’ endured far beyond standard periodization, Butler likewise demonstrates that ‘white resistance’ to the fragile gains of the civil rights movement in the Deep South was far more robust, long-lasting, and multifaceted than historians have generally argued. Beyond Integration will make an immediate impact on debates over change and continuity in the civil rights movement as well as the nagging persistence of inequality in American life.”--Paul Ortiz, University of Florida