J Mills Thornton Author

J. Mills Thornton III is the author of Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma and Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800–1860, which was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize by the American Historical Association in 1978. He is also a professor emeritus of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.