Portrait of a Decade; the Second American Revolution / Anthony Lewis and the New York Times.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Anthony, 1927-2013.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 322 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Manufacture:

Scranton, Pennsylvania : Manufactured by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.

Other Title:

The second American revolution.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1964]

Contents:

The Revolutionary Decade

The School Segregation Cases

The South reacts

Little Rock

Montgomery, cradle of the New Negro

Non-violent direct action

The Role of the Federal Government

The Right to Vote

Two Cities: New Orleans and Atlanta

Alabama: 1960-1963

Mississippi

The North

The Law.

Notes:

"A first-hand account of the struggle for Civil Rights from 1954-1964"--Dustjacket.

" .. the book is the work of a score of journalists who have filed millions of words about civil rights during the past ten years ... the Times relied particularly on Claude Sitton, who since 1957 has been its southern regional correspondent ... Anthony Lewis .... wrote ... three special chapters dealing with the law and civil rights."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok Philadelphia December 1966".

OCLC:

422388