Thomas Holt's book on the history of the Civil Rights era, The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights is a valuable and incisive work that covers the broad era of civil rights in an accessible but also rigorous manner...The Movement is a valuable resource for thinking through the Civil Rights era and its impact on American history.
Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago and the author of Children of Fire: A History of African Americans and The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century.