How Far the Promised Land?
Subtitle: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780691007069
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Political activism; Politics and government; History - General History; Civil rights movements; United States - 20th Century; History; History - U.S.; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; History: American; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; American History; History / United States / 20th Century; Political Science and International Relations; World History / Comparative History; Civil rights; United States; International Relations - General; 20th century; African Americans
First sentence: SOME TEN YEARS before Woodrow Wilson and William Trotter journeyed to Paris, in the summer of 1908, racial violence rocked Springfield, Illinois, the city where Abraham Lincoln had lived and was buried.