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Of Marshalls, Myrdals and Kings: Some Recent Books about the Second Reconstruction - AndersonAlan B. and PickeringGeorge W., Confronting The Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1986, £39.95 cloth, £15.60 paper). Pp. 515. ISBN 0 8203 0842 0. Hereafter CTCL. BelknapMichal R., Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1987, $35). Pp. 387. ISBN 0 8203 0925 7. Hereafter FLSO. ClarkSeptima, Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement, ed. with an Introduction by CynthiaStokes Brown (Navarro, Ca.: Wild Trees Press, 1986, $8.95 paper). Pp. 134. ISBN 0 931125 04 9. Hereafter RFW. EaglesCharles W., ed., The Civil Rights Movement in America (Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1986, $18.50 cloth, paper). Pp. 188. ISBN 0 87805 297 6. Hereafter CRMA. FaircloughAdam, To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1987, $35 cloth, $17.95 paper). Pp. 504. ISBN 0 8203 0898 6. Hereafter TRSA. GarrowDavid J., Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1986, $19.95). Pp. 800. ISBN 0 688 04794 7. Hereafter BTC. LawsonSteven F., In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics 1965–1982 (New York and Guildford, Surrey: Columbia University Press, 1985, $35 cloth, $14.50 paper). Pp. 391. ISBN 0 231 04626 X. Hereafter IPP. PeakeThomas R., Keeping the Dream Alive: A History of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the Nineteen-Eighties (New York, Berne, Frankfurt am Main, and Paris: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1987, $36). Pp. 502. ISBN 0 8204 0397 0. Hereafter KDA. AdolphReedJr., ed., Race, Politics, and Culture: Critical Essays on the Radicalism of the 1960s (New York, Westport, Ct., and London: Greenwood Press, 1986, £27.95). Pp. 287. ISBN 0 313 24480 4. Hereafter RPC. RobinsonJo Ann Gibson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, ed. with a Foreword by GarrowDavid J. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987, $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper). Pp. 190. ISBN 0 87049 524 0. Hereafter MBBWWS. SouthernDavid W., Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations: The Use and Abuse of An American Dilemma, 1944–1969 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987, £33.25). Pp. 341. ISBN 0 8071 1302 6. Hereafter GMBWR. TushnetMark V., The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925–1950 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1987, £25.45 cloth, £8.45 paper). Pp. 222. ISBN 0 8078 1723 6. Hereafter NLS.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1988

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