Unfinished business : racial equality in American history / Michael J. Klarman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klarman, Michael J.

Series:

Inalienable rights series ; bk. 2.

Inalienable rights series ; bk. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--United States--History.

Equality.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates the course of racial equality in America, revealing that we have made less progress than we like to think. Indeed, African Americans have had to fight for everything they have achieved. Klarman highlights a variety of social and political factors that have influenced the path of racial progress--wars, migrations, urbanization, shifting political

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Editor's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The Founding; CHAPTER TWO: The Antebellum Period; CHAPTER THREE: The Civil War and Reconstruction; CHAPTER FOUR: Retreat from Reconstruction; CHAPTER FIVE: White Supremacy Ascendant; CHAPTER SIX: The Progressive Era; CHAPTER SEVEN: Between the World Wars; CHAPTER EIGHT: World War II; CHAPTER NINE: Brown v. Board of Education; CHAPTER TEN: The Civil Rights Era; CHAPTER ELEVEN: To the Present; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-029392-6

1-281-16294-9

9786611162948

0-19-804138-1

1-4356-1780-0

OCLC:

476246576