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The article focuses on African American freedom struggle and literature written about the Civil Rights Movement. It mentions Martin Luther King, Jr., offered the first scholarly treatments on the subject and journalist Louis E. Lomax provided an early explanation of the social upheaval in his book "The Negro Revolt." It also mentions Numan V. Bartley's book "The Rise of Massive Resistance" offered the first historical assessment of the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Region, Race, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South. By David Goldfield. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1997. Pp. [x], 309. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8071-2244-0; cloth, $37.50, [...]

Examines the racial tensions surrounding the residential bombings in post-war Birmingham, Alabama. Evolution of black protest from a request for separate but equal public services to a demand for an end to segregation; Relationship of the bombings to the civil rights movement; Implications of the adoption of a general zoning ordinance in 1926; Restriction of African American to certain parts of the city.