Civil rights and social wrongs
Subtitle: Black-white relations since World War II
By: edited by John Higham.
Contributors: Higham, John, 1920-; Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; United States -- Race relations -- Congresses; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: John Higham and The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies have brought together nine original essays - plus a tenth already published essay that deserves to be more widely known. Together these essays offer the most compactly comprehensive appraisal we have of how the modern civil rights movement came about, how it changed relationships between blacks and whites, and how it led to affirmative action, to multiculturalism, and eventually to the present stalemate and discontent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revised papers of a symposium presented at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., during Oct., 1994.
"Published in association with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies."