Reviews
" An outstanding study of one of the most hotly contested cities during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s."
--Choice
"An outstanding study of one of the most hotly contested cities during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s."
--Choice
"An important addition to the history of civil rights in the United States and to the history of Maryland."
--Maryland Historical Magazine
"Peter Levy's important book puts Cambridge alongside Birmignham, Montgomery, and Selma as flashpoints and turning points in the southern civil rights struggle."
--Journal of American History (online)
"Levy's important books puts Cambridge alongside Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma as flash points and turning points in the southern civil rights struggle."
--The Journal of American History
"It is easier to describe what brought Cambridge into the early civil rights phase of the conflict that it is to explain how it veered into Black Power violence."
"How the objectives, strategy, and dynamics of this miniature reflection of the changing national racial crises unfolded is the major revelation of this excellent book."
"A place that one freedom ride called a 'little Georgia' in the early 1960s became a mini-Detroit or Watts in 1967. To understand how this important transformation happened, readers of this review should turn to Levy's thoroughly researched and well-written book."
--The Journal of Southern History
"A concise and fascinating account of a local movement that triumphed by rejecting the creed of nonviolence, adding to the growing list of local campaigns that make fiction of the nonviolent King-as-martyr interpretation."
--American Historical Review