Kennedy, Johnson, and the quest for justice
Subtitle: the civil rights tapes
By: Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell.
Contributors: Karabell, Zachary.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963.; Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963 -- Sources.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969 -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: "In this book, Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell present the story of desegregation at Ole Miss; the effort by Martin Luther King, Jr. to dismantle Jim Crow in Birmingham, Alabama; the March on Washington; the aftermath of the church bombing that killed four young girls in September 1963; and numerous other key moments in the history of the civil rights movement, but from an altogether new perspective, that of the White House." "As part of the Presidential Recordings Project at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, this book includes actual transcripts of the secret recordings - most never before published - that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made of their meetings and telephone conversations between the fall of 1962 and the groundbreaking passage of the Civil Rights Act in the summer of 1964. By setting these transcripts in an historical narrative, Rosenberg and Karabell present a seamless account of two tumultuous years in America's struggle for racial justice and highlight the pivotal role played by Kennedy and Johnson in ending legal segregation."--Jacket.
Notes: "Bibliographic essay": p. 339-343.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The twentieth-century struggle; title: Ole Miss; title: Protest in Birmingham; title: The bill and the march; title: Bombs in Birmingham; title: The bill moves forward; title: Johnson takes over; title: Through the House; title: Into the Senate; title: The final fight.