<p><strong>"Compact yet comprehensive, <i>Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement</i> does a masterful job of distilling the best and most recent scholarship on civil rights and Black Power into easily digestible nuggets. This is the new starting point for studying the movement."</strong></p><p>— Hasan Kwame Jeffries,<em> Associate Professor, The Ohio State University</em></p><p><strong>"Part breezy narrative, part comprehensive historiography, Yohuru Wiliam’s<em> Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement</em> is a brilliant and much needed synthesis of the rich new bodies of scholarship that have redefined our understanding of the civil rights and black power movements."</strong></p><p>— George Derek Musgrove, <em>Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County</em></p><p><strong>"This splendid, succinct volume summarizes and interprets the African American struggle against oppression—the “Six Degrees of Segregation” in housing, education, voting, employment, criminal processes, and access to public spaces and conveyances... Specialists will value Williams’s insights and novices his clear writing as he weaves together the various expressions of the struggle into a coherent narrative. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries."</strong></p><p>— E. R. Crowther, <em>Adams State University, CHOICE Reviews</em></p>