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Presidents and Black America : a documentary history / [edited by] Stephen A. Jones, Eric Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--Relations with African Americans--History--Sources.
- Presidents.
- Presidents--United States--Racial attitudes--Sources.
- African Americans--Attitudes--History--Sources.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Attitudes.
- History.
- Presidents--Racial attitudes.
- Presidents--Relations with African Americans.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 546 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE/CQ Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Jones (history, Central Michigan U.) and Freedman (journalism, Michigan State U.) document the wide range of relationships of all the US presidents with African Americans and their views on issues such as slavery, segregation, racial violence, voting rights, and other civil liberties, and the growth of black political power and influence. The presidents' perspectives are illustrated through letters, speeches, executive orders, presidential proclamations, diary entries, articles, editorials, political cartoons, and congressional testimony and debates. Discussion of primary documents such as Washington's letter to poet Phillis Wheatley, John Quincy Adams's Supreme Court argument in the Amistad slave case, a petition from African Americans to Lincoln promoting black colonization in the rebel states, Truman's executive order that desegregated the armed forces, Reagan's remarks signing the bill making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, and Obama's Independence Hall speech on race are included. Several documents are provided for each president. CQ Press is an imprint of SAGE Publications. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1608710084
- 9781608710089
- OCLC:
- 693809393
- Publisher Number:
- 99948261003
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