Betrayed
Subtitle: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: April 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780813324654
Subjects: Central government policies; Human rights; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; General; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights Of Blacks; U.S. Federal Executive Bodies; United States; Politics / Current Events; Presidents; History: American; USA; History; Criminology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Crimes against; 20th century; African Americans; Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Description: In this timely and eye-opening book, Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson traces the root cause of the White House's failure to protect the rights of African Americans. Drawing extensively from public and private presidential papers, private correspondence, personal interviews, and national archive documents, Hutchinson gives a rich historical account of the racial philosophy, policies, and practices of successive presidents from Warren G. Harding to Bill Clinton.