Toward Freedom Land [electronic resource] : The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America /
Sitkoff, Harvard.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
c2010.
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 fin
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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 fin
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 : another perspective -- Willkie as liberal : civil liberties and civil rights -- African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust -- Harry Truman and the election of 1948 : the coming of age of civil rights in American politics -- Martin Luther King Jr. : seeing Lazarus, 1967-1968 -- The second reconstruction.
Description based on print version record.
Race discrimination
African Americans
African Americans
Civil rights movements