The unsteady march : the rise and decline of racial equality in America Philip A. Klinkner with Rogers M. Smith

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klinkner, Philip A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Government policy--History.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Paperback ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Summary:

American life is filled with talk of progress and equality, especially when the issue is that of race. But has the history of race in America really been the continuous march toward equality we'd like to imagine it has? This sweeping history of race in America argues quite the opposite: that progress toward equality has been sporadic, isolated, and surrounded by long periods of stagnation and retrenchment. - Publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : The unsteady march

Bolted with the lock of a hundred keys : the era of slavery, 1619-1860

Thenceforward, and forever free : the Civil War, 1860-1865

The Negro has got as much as he ought to have : Reconstruction and the Second Retreat, 1865-1908

The color line : Jim Crow in America, 1908-1938

Deutschland and Dixieland : antifacism and the emergence of civil rights, 1938-1941

Double V : victory abroad, victory at home : World War II

Hearts and minds : the Cold War and civil rights, 1946-1954

There comes a time : the civil rights revolution, 1954-1968

Benign neglect? Post-civil rights America, 1968-1998

Conclusion : Shall we overcome?

Notes:

Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-406) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0226443418

9780226443416

OCLC:

48930508