Kennedy, Johnson, and the quest for justice : the civil rights tapes / Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Jonathan, 1958-

Contributor:

Karabell, Zachary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.

Kennedy, John F.

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Politics and government.

United States.

History.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Sources.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

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.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xiv, 368 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]

Summary:

This volume is composed of transcripts from the secret recordings that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made of White House meetings and phone conversations about the violent Civil Rights crisis. As fly-on-the-wall history, this book gives an unprecedented grasp of the way the White House affected civil rights history and consequently transformed America.

Contents:

The twentieth-century struggle

Ole Miss

Protest in Birmingham

The bill and the march

Bombs in Birmingham

The bill moves forward

Johnson takes over

Through the House

Into the Senate

The final fight.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-343) and index.

ISBN:

0393051226

OCLC:

50089812