Lion in the Lobby : Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws 9780761864516, 9780761864509

161 61 5MB

English Pages 919 Year 2014

Lion in the Lobby : Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws
9780761864516, 9780761864509

0 0 0
Like this paper and download? You can publish your own PDF file online for free in a few minutes! Sign Up

The ability to vote, the freedom to attend school and have a job, the independence to be exactly who you are. These righ

177 101 26MB Read more

Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights cla

114 1 83MB Read more

The story of the Civil Rights Movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the

137 33 19MB Read more

Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently

157 66 2MB Read more

From the fourteenth century to the twenty-first, the of the passport adds a vital perspective to the understanding of wo

121 47 1MB Read more

How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracy In the post–civil rights era, wide-ran

192 47 5MB Read more

Whitney M. Young, Jr., the charismatic executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, bridged the wo

119 19 21MB Read more

"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the underst

115 48 19MB Read more

"Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America recounts the extraordi

409 28 3MB Read more

Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest i

107 34 Read more