Justice rising : Robert Kennedy's America in black and white / Patricia Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Patricia, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Civil rights movements.

Racial justice--United States--History--20th century.

Racial justice.

Black people--Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.

Black people.

Black people--Civil rights.

Race relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 515 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s--and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: "The best a white America has to offer"

Misfit

Along the color line: the 1950s

Faith, hope, and politics

Black votes

Simple justice

The challenge of a decade

Freedom now

"A great change is at hand"

On his own

Transitions

Beyond civil rights

Suppose God is Black

Reckoning

The gravest crisis since the Civil War

Our country's future

A time of danger and questioning

The last of the believables

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-491) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780674737457

0674737458

OCLC:

1198017183