Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011.
Minchin and Salmond have written a first-rate work that deserves a wide-readership. Their work greatly adds to scholars' understanding of the struggle for racial equality.
~Timothy N. Thurber, author of The Politics of Equality
[W]ell-researched and -written.... this book is an important addition to the scholarship on civil rights, and is the definitive work on the implementation of the advances and setbacks made in the South in the cause of civil rights since 1965.
~H-Net Reviews
In their magisterial book... Minchin and Salmond have deliverd the historical profession a fluid, highly readable, and impeccably researched account of the challenges, struggles, and successes of civil rights in the last forty-five years.
~Ohio Valley History
Minchin and Salmond... focus on events in the American South following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 'After the Dream' examines the social, economic and political implications of these laws in the decades following their passage, discussing the empowerment of Black southerners, white resistance, accommodation and acceptance, and the nation's political will.
~Philadelphia Tribune
After the Dream is a meticulously documented and well-written survey that stretches the complicated history of desegregation in the American South from 1965 into the twenty-first century.
~North Carolina Historical Review
Effectively goes where few previous analyses have gone by extending the discussion from the 1960s into the twenty-first century.
~Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Essential reading for scholars and general readers who want to understand efforts to implement the civil rights revolution in the South after 1965.... In lucid prose, the author take the reader through the historic attempts to fulfill the dream of racial equality articulated by Martin Luther King, Jr.
~Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Offers a broad, synthetic overview of the forty-plus years since the zenith of the modern civil rights movement.
~Journal of American History
Provide insight into how everyday people responded to the social revolution that changed everything and left so much undone.
~Journal of Southern History
The book is a useful reference for those seeking an overview of political and economic developments that affected the civil rights struggle in the late 20th century.
~Greta de Jong, Journal of African American History
Minchin and Salmond have given us a better understanding of the complex history of desegregation in the South and thus have made an important contribution to the literature on the civil rights movement.
~Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia History
