Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (original) (raw)

Western journal of black studies, 2014

Abstract

Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement Author: Tomiko Brown-Nagin Oxford University Press, 2011 Price: $ 34.95 ISBN: 978-0-19-538659-2 The beauty of Tomiko Brown-Nagin's work, Courage to Dissent, lies not just in the artful retelling of the impact of legal organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); grassroots movements like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commission (SNCC); nationally-recognized leaders like Julian Bond; and behind the scenes organizers like Ella Baker. Her work reveals the dynamic, sometimes contentious relations that participants in the Civil Rights Movement had with one another. Brown-Nagin begins this text with an introduction to A. T. Walden, a highly influential but not widely known pragmatic lawyer in Georgia. Walden rose to prominence in the Black community when he became the first African American in Georgia's history ever to aid in the prosecution of a Whi...

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