Dividing Lines

“Thornton's opus is the most important book to be written on the civil rights movement in a decade. . . . It is impossible to truly understand the movement without reading, absorbing, and analyzing this first-rate study of three Alabama cities in turmoil.”
—Douglas Brinkley, Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History at the University of New Orleans
 

“Dividing Lines will quickly come to be regarded as the most original and interpretively significant work of civil rights movement historiography to have been published within the past 15 or 20 years, or perhaps simply ever.”
—David J. Garrow, author of Bearing the Cross