Parting the Waters
Subtitle: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Published: June 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844672953
Subjects: History: American; People of Color; United States - 20th Century; History
First sentence: Under such conditions, and with the U.S. Congress threatening a new Fifteenth Amendment to establish the right of Negroes to vote and govern, most whites were of no mind to dispute the Negro right to religion.