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Harry Truman and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Robert Shogan
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Description for Harry Truman and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Hardcover. The first full-scale, balanced account of President Truman's civil rights policies, tracing how the Missourian outgrew the bigotry of his Jackson County upbringing to become the president who integrated the military and lobbied for key civil rights legislation. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelt’s running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many believed that Truman, born and raised in former slave-holding Missouri, was a step back on civil rights from Henry Wallace, the liberal incumbent vice president. But by the end of his own presidency, black newspaper publishers cited Truman for having “awakened the conscience of America and given new strength to our democracy by his courageous efforts on behalf of freedom and equality.”
In this first full-scale account of Truman’s evolving views on civil rights, Robert Shogan recounts how Truman ... Read more
When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelt’s running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many believed that Truman, born and raised in former slave-holding Missouri, was a step back on civil rights from Henry Wallace, the liberal incumbent vice president. But by the end of his own presidency, black newspaper publishers cited Truman for having “awakened the conscience of America and given new strength to our democracy by his courageous efforts on behalf of freedom and equality.”
In this first full-scale account of Truman’s evolving views on civil rights, Robert Shogan recounts how Truman ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619115
SKU
V9780700619115
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99-20
About Robert Shogan
Robert Shogan, a former national political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau, as a college journalist reported on Truman’s 1948 upset election victory. He is author of fourteen previous books, most recently Prelude to Catastrophe: FDR’s Jews and the Menace of Nazism and No Sense of Decency: The Army McCarthy Hearings.
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