Throughout the South, the Civil Rights Movement inched along over a period of years, making segregated facilities and discriminatory practices the focus of attention and conflict. In The Last Segregated Hour, Stephen Haynes brings to life a dramatic, yet little studied, tactic adopted by protesters in the struggle. A well-researched analysis of a church desegregation campaign in Memphis... As a thorough examination into local history, this work will nevertheless leave readers questioning its larger significance... Haynes's book provides a fitting entryway into a feature of the movement that is ripe for further analysis.