Civil Rights and the Idea of FreedomCivil Rights and the Idea of Freedom is a groundbreaking work, one of the first to show in detail how the civil rights movement crystallized our views of citizenship as a grassroots level, collective endeavor and of self respect as a formidable political tool. Drawing on both oral and written sources, Richard H. King shows how rank and file movement participants defined and discussed such concepts as rights, equality, justice, and, in particular,