Marching in Montgomery: A Memoir of the Civil Rights Movement by John J. Hartman

Dr. Hartman has written a personal memoir and a historical account of his participation in protest demonstrations in Montgomery, Alabama in March of 1965. This is an account of how peaceful civil disobedience was met with statesanctioned police violence which eventually resulted in meaningful social change. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the direct result of the SelmaMontgomery Campaign, but it also touched off a reaction of White grievance and backlash which is still very much evident in our politics today.

The account is supplemented by archival photographs of the key figures, the protests, and the police violence. The author is shown in some of the photos. The final chapter offers an overview of how the issue of voting rights for all citizens has not been settled as efforts to undo the gains made by the civil rights movement are still at play not only in Alabama but across the country.

John J. Hartman, PhD is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Florida Psychoanalytic Center in Miami. He is also a member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society and the Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Center. He has taught at UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the University of Tampa. He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the University of South Florida.

He is coauthor of the book, Analysis of Groups, and over 35 articles and book chapters on topics of psychoanalysis, small groups, art, propaganda, and the Holocaust. In addition, he is the founder and executive director of Remembrance and Reconciliation, Inc., a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the remembrance of the Jews of Galicia and healing of the wounds of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe.