Peter J Ling
Biographic Data
| ID | 234946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J Ling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ling |
| SIGNATURE | LING P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4187-8162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Finding freedom: The SCLC’s Citizenship Schools and the idea of freedom
Why Reagan was not impeached
In the aftermath of Watergate and Vietnam, Congressional investigations uncovered the largely unknown activities of the CIA and other agencies, which included arming and interfering in the domestic politics of regimes in both Central America and Iran. These programmes had also involved supporting reactionary regimes in ways that some saw as drawing the United States into conflicts, like Vietnam, without public knowledge or consent. In 1987, it wa…
King, Martin Luther (1929–1968)
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King remains the most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement, although scholars argue his pre‐eminence can be overstated. His religious background and charismatic oratory enabled him to articulate movement demands in ways that resonated with African American audiences and a broader liberal audience. He deployed nonviolence throughout his career, with particular effectiveness in Birmingham in 1963 and Selma in 1965. …
Operation breadbasket: An untold story of civil rights in Chicago
This memoir/history by one of Operation Breadbasket's founding pastors is more history than memoir. Deppe is keen to establish the program's initial development and eventual decline rather than pro
Ray Watching: The Highly Protected, British Prison Experience of Martin Luther King's Killer
The arrest of James Earl Ray at London Airport on 8 June 1968 marked the final stage of an international manhunt that had begun with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April. Arrested for travelling on a false passport and with an unlicensed firearm, Ray faced extradition to the US to face charges of murder. While in prison in Britain, the US Government feared that he might escape, commit suicide or be himself assassinated. Each of these o…
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peter Ling’s acclaimed biography of Martin Luther King Jr provides a thorough re-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing how King grew into his leadership role and kept his faith as the challenges facing the movement strengthened after 1965. Ling combines a detailed narrative of Martin Luther King’s life with the key historiographical debates surrounding him and places both within the historical context of the Civil Rig…
What a difference a death makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
When the Kennedy assassination occurred in November 1963, it was not clear that his civil rights bill would pass without major modifications, and most Americans told pollsters that they were unsure of his policy. Fifty years later, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is seen by Kennedy apologists as evidence of what JFK could have achieved had he lived, and by Lyndon Johnson biographers as evidence of LBJ’s superior political skill. This …
Gender in the Civil Rights Movement
Backing Dr King: The financial transformation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1963
This article details how the fund-raising efforts of Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the wake of the 1963 Birmingham protests transformed the finances of the SCLC. Having struggled to sustain itself prior to 1963, the SCLC experienced a massive influx of donations. Contributions were sparked by outrage at police brutality in Birmingham but the impulse to give had to be systematically channeled to optimize the wind…
Social Capital, Resource Mobilization and Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
This article critiques the contradictory claims of Robert Putnam and Aldon Morris in relation to the American civil rights movement. Putnam identifies the South as the American region most lacking in social capital, and argues more generally that the 1960s marked a watershed beyond which social capital in the United States declined in all regions. Morris identifies the indigenous resources of southern African American communities as fundamental t…
Gender and the Civil Rights Movement
This book is a collection of nine essays that analyse the people, the protests and the incidents of the civil rights movement through the lens of gender. More than just a study of women, the book examines the ways in which assigned sexual roles and values shaped the strategy, tactics and ideology of the movement. The essays deal with topics ranging from the Montgomery bus boycott and Rhythm and Blues to gangsta rap and contemporary fiction, from …
Karl Haglund, Inventing the Charles River
Ari Kelman, A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
Political education in post-Second World War Germany and the American South
Both American and European adult educationalists saw the Danish folk high school as a model for how to educate citizens for more active involvement in their communities. This article examines the experience of Wislade Folk School in Germany and the Highlander Folk School in the United States after the Second World War. In the German case, Wislade was unable to persuade local people to confront the evils of Nazism, but did facilitate the practical…
John Lane, Waist Deep in Black Water
The Incomparable Elkins
First published in 1959, Stanley Elkins's work Slavery was an invitation to American scholars to look at this subject in new ways. It proposed that systematic comparison of slave systems should replace moral absolutism, and it suggested that neglected aspects of slavery could be highlighted by a process of analogy. This essay reviews Elkins's work, highlighting the strengths and the flaws of a methodology that drew on social scientific and litera…
From family to nation: Organizing the Mississippi movement
John Dittmer, LOCAL PEOPLE: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN MISSISSIPPI, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995, 530 pp., $29.95. Charles M. Payne, I'VE GOT THE LIGHT OF FREEDOM: THE ORGANIZING TRADITION AND THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM STRUGGLE, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, xiv + 525 pp, $28.00
Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990
Journal Article Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919–1990. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995. viii, 338 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-87013-361-6.) Get access Peter J. Ling Peter J. Ling University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 656–657, https://do…
Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City
Journal Article Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. By Clay McShane. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xx, 288 * pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-08390-4.) Get access Peter J. Ling Peter J. Ling University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 294–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082073 Publ…
Gemeinschaft Into Ghetto: Black Communities and White Urban America
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America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform, and Social Change
Journal Article America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform, and Social Change. By Peter J. Ling. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. vi + 202 pp. $59.95.) Get access Stephen H. Cutcliffe Stephen H. Cutcliffe Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078344 Published: 01 March 1991
America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform and Social Change, 1893-1923
Short notices
Susan Migden Socolow, The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769–1810: Amor al Real Servicio (1987), xxi + 356 (Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., $45.00). W. Hamish Fraser, Conflict and Class. Scottish Workers 1700–1838 (1988), 202 (John Donald, £20.00). Margaret Ripley Wolfe, Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City (1987), xii + 259 (The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, £24.00). Carl Chinn, They Worked All Their Lives. Women of the U…
Social Capital, Resource Mobilization and Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
This article critiques the contradictory claims of Robert Putnam and Aldon Morris in relation to the American civil rights movement. Putnam identifies the South as the American region most lacking in social capital, and argues more generally that the 1960s marked a watershed beyond which social capital in the United States declined in all regions. Morris identifies the indigenous resources of southern African American communities as fundamental t…
America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform, and Social Change
Journal Article America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform, and Social Change. By Peter J. Ling. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. vi + 202 pp. $59.95.) Get access Stephen H. Cutcliffe Stephen H. Cutcliffe Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078344 Published: 01 March 1991
Why Reagan was not impeached
In the aftermath of Watergate and Vietnam, Congressional investigations uncovered the largely unknown activities of the CIA and other agencies, which included arming and interfering in the domestic politics of regimes in both Central America and Iran. These programmes had also involved supporting reactionary regimes in ways that some saw as drawing the United States into conflicts, like Vietnam, without public knowledge or consent. In 1987, it wa…
Backing Dr King: The financial transformation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1963
This article details how the fund-raising efforts of Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the wake of the 1963 Birmingham protests transformed the finances of the SCLC. Having struggled to sustain itself prior to 1963, the SCLC experienced a massive influx of donations. Contributions were sparked by outrage at police brutality in Birmingham but the impulse to give had to be systematically channeled to optimize the wind…
Short notices
Susan Migden Socolow, The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769–1810: Amor al Real Servicio (1987), xxi + 356 (Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., $45.00). W. Hamish Fraser, Conflict and Class. Scottish Workers 1700–1838 (1988), 202 (John Donald, £20.00). Margaret Ripley Wolfe, Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City (1987), xii + 259 (The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, £24.00). Carl Chinn, They Worked All Their Lives. Women of the U…
Gemeinschaft Into Ghetto: Black Communities and White Urban America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform, and Social Change
Journal Article America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform, and Social Change. By Peter J. Ling. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. vi + 202 pp. $59.95.) Get access Stephen H. Cutcliffe Stephen H. Cutcliffe Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078344 Published: 01 March 1991
America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform and Social Change, 1893-1923
Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City
Journal Article Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. By Clay McShane. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xx, 288 * pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-08390-4.) Get access Peter J. Ling Peter J. Ling University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 294–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082073 Publ…
Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990
Journal Article Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919–1990. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995. viii, 338 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-87013-361-6.) Get access Peter J. Ling Peter J. Ling University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 656–657, https://do…
The Incomparable Elkins
First published in 1959, Stanley Elkins's work Slavery was an invitation to American scholars to look at this subject in new ways. It proposed that systematic comparison of slave systems should replace moral absolutism, and it suggested that neglected aspects of slavery could be highlighted by a process of analogy. This essay reviews Elkins's work, highlighting the strengths and the flaws of a methodology that drew on social scientific and litera…
From family to nation: Organizing the Mississippi movement
John Dittmer, LOCAL PEOPLE: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN MISSISSIPPI, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995, 530 pp., $29.95. Charles M. Payne, I'VE GOT THE LIGHT OF FREEDOM: THE ORGANIZING TRADITION AND THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM STRUGGLE, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, xiv + 525 pp, $28.00
John Lane, Waist Deep in Black Water
Karl Haglund, Inventing the Charles River
Ari Kelman, A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
Political education in post-Second World War Germany and the American South
Both American and European adult educationalists saw the Danish folk high school as a model for how to educate citizens for more active involvement in their communities. This article examines the experience of Wislade Folk School in Germany and the Highlander Folk School in the United States after the Second World War. In the German case, Wislade was unable to persuade local people to confront the evils of Nazism, but did facilitate the practical…
Gender and the Civil Rights Movement
This book is a collection of nine essays that analyse the people, the protests and the incidents of the civil rights movement through the lens of gender. More than just a study of women, the book examines the ways in which assigned sexual roles and values shaped the strategy, tactics and ideology of the movement. The essays deal with topics ranging from the Montgomery bus boycott and Rhythm and Blues to gangsta rap and contemporary fiction, from …
Social Capital, Resource Mobilization and Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
This article critiques the contradictory claims of Robert Putnam and Aldon Morris in relation to the American civil rights movement. Putnam identifies the South as the American region most lacking in social capital, and argues more generally that the 1960s marked a watershed beyond which social capital in the United States declined in all regions. Morris identifies the indigenous resources of southern African American communities as fundamental t…
Backing Dr King: The financial transformation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1963
This article details how the fund-raising efforts of Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the wake of the 1963 Birmingham protests transformed the finances of the SCLC. Having struggled to sustain itself prior to 1963, the SCLC experienced a massive influx of donations. Contributions were sparked by outrage at police brutality in Birmingham but the impulse to give had to be systematically channeled to optimize the wind…
Gender in the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peter Ling’s acclaimed biography of Martin Luther King Jr provides a thorough re-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing how King grew into his leadership role and kept his faith as the challenges facing the movement strengthened after 1965. Ling combines a detailed narrative of Martin Luther King’s life with the key historiographical debates surrounding him and places both within the historical context of the Civil Rig…
What a difference a death makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
When the Kennedy assassination occurred in November 1963, it was not clear that his civil rights bill would pass without major modifications, and most Americans told pollsters that they were unsure of his policy. Fifty years later, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is seen by Kennedy apologists as evidence of what JFK could have achieved had he lived, and by Lyndon Johnson biographers as evidence of LBJ’s superior political skill. This …
Ray Watching: The Highly Protected, British Prison Experience of Martin Luther King's Killer
The arrest of James Earl Ray at London Airport on 8 June 1968 marked the final stage of an international manhunt that had begun with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April. Arrested for travelling on a false passport and with an unlicensed firearm, Ray faced extradition to the US to face charges of murder. While in prison in Britain, the US Government feared that he might escape, commit suicide or be himself assassinated. Each of these o…
Operation breadbasket: An untold story of civil rights in Chicago
This memoir/history by one of Operation Breadbasket's founding pastors is more history than memoir. Deppe is keen to establish the program's initial development and eventual decline rather than pro
Why Reagan was not impeached
In the aftermath of Watergate and Vietnam, Congressional investigations uncovered the largely unknown activities of the CIA and other agencies, which included arming and interfering in the domestic politics of regimes in both Central America and Iran. These programmes had also involved supporting reactionary regimes in ways that some saw as drawing the United States into conflicts, like Vietnam, without public knowledge or consent. In 1987, it wa…
King, Martin Luther (1929–1968)
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King remains the most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement, although scholars argue his pre‐eminence can be overstated. His religious background and charismatic oratory enabled him to articulate movement demands in ways that resonated with African American audiences and a broader liberal audience. He deployed nonviolence throughout his career, with particular effectiveness in Birmingham in 1963 and Selma in 1965. …
Finding freedom: The SCLC’s Citizenship Schools and the idea of freedom
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