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"Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus, Hedin does what good historians do, but by entwining history with current events, he does a lot more. Here is a haunting meditation on living in history as well as with it."--Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to LincolnIn March of 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands in an epic march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital in Montgomery, in what is often seen as the culminating moment of the Civil Rights movement. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law that year, and with Jim Crow eradicated, and schools being desegregated, the movement had supposedly come to an end.
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Benjamin Hedin is the author of In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now and the editor of Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader. He has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications. Also a Grammy-nominated producer of documentary films, he wrote Two Trains Runnin', a film about the search for two forgotten blues singers, and the multiple award-winning documentary MLK/FBI - called "eye-opening and jaw-dropping" by Rolling Stone. He lives in Atlanta. For more information, visit www.benjaminhedin.com
