Toward freedom land
Subtitle: the long struggle for racial equality in America
By: Harvard Sitkoff.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky; The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780813173801
Subjects: Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: The preconditions for racial change; title: The New Deal and race relations; title: The Detroit race riot of 1943; title: Racial militancy and interracial violence in the Second World War; title: African American militancy in the World War II South : another perspective; title: Willkie as liberal : civil liberties and civil rights; title: African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust; title: Harry Truman and the election of 1948 : the coming of age of civil rights in American politics; title: Martin Luther King Jr. : seeing Lazarus, 1967-1968; title: The second reconstruction.