Papers selected from the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Conference on Civil Rights and Race Relations held between 21 and 24 October, 1993 at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civil rights movement in Louisiana, 1939-54 / Adam Fairclough -- 'He founded a movement' : W. H. Flowers, the committee on Negro organizations and the origins of black activism in Arkansas, 1940-57 / John Kirk -- 'Nixon was the one' : Edgar Daniel Nixon, the MIA and the Montgomery bus boycott / John White -- Fatalism, not gradualism : race and the crisis of Southern liberalism, 1945-65 / Tony Badger -- White liberal intellectuals, civil rights and gradualism, 1954-60 / Walter A. Jackson -- Rethinking African-American political thought in the post-revolutionary era / Claybourne Carson -- From Shiloh to Selma : the impact of the Civil War centennial on the Black freedom struggle in the United States, 1961-65 / Robert Cook -- Touchstones, authorities and Marian Anderson : the making of 'I have a dream' / Keith D. Miller and Emily M. Lewis -- Politics and fictional representation : the case of the Civil Rights Movement / Richard H. King --

Limits of America : rethinking equality in the changing context of British race relations / Tariq Modood -- British responses to Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68 / Mike Sewell -- Non-violent resistance to white supremacy : a comparison of the American Civil Rights Movement and the South African defiance campaigns of the 1950s / George M. Frederickson.