Toward Freedom Land : The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America

by Sitkoff, Harvard

• ISBN13: 9780813125831
• ISBN10: 0813125839
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

The ongoing struggle for civil rights and social justice lies at the heart of America's evolving identity. The pursuit of equal rights is often met with social and political trepidation, forcing citizens and leaders to grapple with controversial issues of race, class, and gender. Renowned scholar Harvard Sitkoff has devoted his life to the study of the civil rights movement, becoming a key figure in global human rights discussions and an authority on American liberalism. Toward Freedom Land assembles Sitkoff 's writings on twentieth-century race relations, representing some of the finest race-related historical research on record. Spanning thirty-five years of Sitkoff 's distingushed career, the collection features an in-depth examination of the Great Depression and its effects on African Americans, the intriguing story of the labor movement and its relationship to African American workers, and a discussion of the effects of World War II on the civil rights movement. His precise analysis illuminates multifaceted racial issues including the New Deal's impact on race relations, the Detroit Riot of 1943, and connections between African Americans, Jews, and the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Preconditions for Racial Change	p. 11
The New Deal and Race Relations	p. 21
The Detroit Race Riot of 1943	p. 43
Racial Militancy and Interracial Violence in the Second World War	p. 65
African American Militancy in the World War II South: Another Perspective	p. 93
Willkie as Liberal: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights	p. 129
African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust	p. 147
Harry Truman and the Election of 1948: The Coming of Age of Civil Rights in American Politics	p. 175
Martin Luther King Jr.: Seeing Lazarus, 1967-1968	p. 197
The Second Reconstruction	p. 215
Index	p. 225
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