ISBN:
9780813125831
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 232 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Toward Freedom Land : The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Civil rights movements History 20th century
;
African Americans Civil rights 20th century
;
History
;
African Americans Social conditions 20th century
;
Race discrimination History 20th century
;
United States Race relations 20th century
;
History
;
United States Social conditions 20th century
Abstract:
The ongoing struggle for civil rights and social justice lies at the heart of America's evolving identity. The pursuit of equal rights is often met with social and political trepidation, forcing citizens and leaders to grapple with controversial issues of race, class, and gender. Renowned scholar Harvard Sitkoff has devoted his life to the study of the civil rights movement, becoming a key figure in global human rights discussions and an authority on American liberalism.Toward Freedom Land assembles Sitkoff 's writings on twentieth-century race relations, representing some of the finest race-r
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover ; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Preconditions for Racial Change; The New Deal and Race Relations; The Detroit Race Riot of 1943; Racial Militancy and Interracial Violence in the Second World War; African American Militancy in the World War II South; Willkie as Liberal; African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust; Harry Truman and the Election of 1948; Martin Luther King Jr.; The Second Reconstruction; Index; Back Cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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