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xi Acknowledgments Over the years that I have been researching and writing this book, I have received financial, moral, and intellectual support from a number of institutions and individuals. The research could not have been completed without funding from the Louisville Institute, the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and the University of Louisville graduate school, College of Arts and Sciences, and Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society. The content draws from and was fundamentally shaped by interviews with over eighty Louisvillians who graciously welcomed me into their homes and shared their stories of the movement. In particular , I am grateful to the Reverend James Chatham, Raoul Cunningham, Anne Braden, and J. Blaine Hudson for helping to identify narrators and make the contacts necessary to launch the interviews. Once I moved on to writing, I benefited from the insights and suggestions of friends and colleagues. Catherine Fosl provided her perspective on Anne Braden and the Wade case. John Dittmer served as an extremely thorough and insightful external reader. And Kathryn Nasstrom not only was my sounding board over the years but read and gave extensive comments on the manuscript at various stages. I am profoundly grateful for their contributions. Finally, I literally would not have been able to complete this work without the love, support, intellectual challenge, and editorial advice I received over the past decade from my colleague, partner, and husband , Glenn Crothers. While our other two coproductions—Colin and Norah—are more precious to our hearts, I trust he shares my satisfaction in completing this one. ...

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