Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South: Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980

Scholarship on the black freedom movement, once centered on the South, has migrated north. While expanding the geographical scope of the movement, this growing body of work potentially augments attention to the overall importance of region and place in histories of the black freedom struggle. Tracy E. K'Meyer contributes to this scholarship by examining the movement in Louisville, Kentucky, a '"middle ground" where the particularities of the North and the South met (p. 1 ).