Ghost of Jim Crow

In "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr. asserted that "the Negro''s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen''s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ''order'' than to justice." To date, our understanding of the Civil Rights era has been largely defined by high-profile public events such as the crisis a...