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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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16 Of the others, several are good but the best are Richard King's essay about the role of intellectual history in the study of the Civil Rights movement, and Brian Ward's vignette about Nat King Cole being attacked by white supremacists at a concert in Birmingham, Alabama.
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