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The bystander : John F. Kennedy and the struggle for Black equality / Nick Bryant.
LIBRA E842.1 .B79 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryant, Nick (Nicholas Andrew)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Kennedy, John F.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 545 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2006]
- Summary:
- Bryant's account of John F. Kennedy's engagement with the race issue reveals that Kennedy's cynicism caused him to neglect crucial opportunities to defuse the most explosive domestic crisis of his era.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Operation Washington 1
- 1 "Give the Kid a Break" 13
- 2 Blue Blood Against Green 33
- 3 Singing Dixie 43
- 4 Trial by Jury 61
- 5 The Victory Room 81
- 6 The Liberal Democrat 99
- 7 Johnny Come Lately 113
- 8 "Those Southern Bastards" 125
- 9 Showdown in Los Angeles 139
- 10 The Strategy of Association 159
- 11 Calling Coretta 179
- 12 Seventy-two Days 191
- 13 Black Camelot 209
- 14 Executive Inaction 225
- 15 The Sheriff of the New Frontier 243
- 16 Project Freedom Ride, 1961 261
- 17 The One-sided Bargain 283
- 18 The Presidential Literacy Test 297
- 19 Albany Revisited 313
- 20 "Go Mississippi" 329
- 21 In Lincoln's Shadow 357
- 22 "Let the Whole Fucking City Burn" 381
- 23 Repairing the Breach 397
- 24 "Fires of Frustration" 417
- 25 The "New South" 439.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-529) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0465008267
- OCLC:
- 62728453
- Publisher Number:
- 9780465008261
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