Historian Tracy E. K’Meyer offers the first comprehensive account of Louisville’s civil rights movement, framing the city as a border space where Northern and Southern approaches to race collided and combined.
Louisville’s schools integrated relatively peacefully in 1956, well ahead of the Deep South, even as Jim Crow persisted in public accommodations into the 1960s and open housing and busing fights later flared much as they did in northern cities.
K’Meyer traces how activists blended Northern and Southern organizing tactics into broad, unusual coalitions across racial and economic lines.
Published 2009
440 pages
$30.00