Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989 - Melissa Walker - Hardcover

In the years since the climactic passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated the struggle for racial justice in an outpouring of significant novels. This insightful book offers new interpretations of 18 of these novels, examining how they relate to the movement and to its failure to achieve equality.Walker, Melissa is the author of 'Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989 - Melissa Walker - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780300048551 and ISBN 0300048556.