Download or read book Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle written by Robert W. Widell, Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle.