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The struggle for racial equality: a documentary record
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.
Year: 1967.
Publisher:  Harper & Row. 
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Frontmatter
Preface
1. An American Dilemma
2. The Civil War Amendments, 1868-70
3. The Freedman's Case
4. Frederick Douglass Calls on the Freedman to Organize for Self-Protection
5. "The Agitation of Questions of Social Equality is the Extremest Folly"
6. "Mr. Washington Represents the Old Attitude of Submission"
7. "Separate But Equal"
8. "To Secure These Rights"
9. Equality in the Armed Services, 1948
10. Equal Opportunities for All: Truman's Rights Program
11. "Separate Educational Facilities are Inherently Unequal", 1954
12. "Brown v. Topeka is a Naked Exercise of Judicial Power"
13. An Argument that the Negro is Inherently Inferior
14. Southern Extremists Deplore "Black Monday," 1954
15. The White Citizens Council Lets Loose the Winds of Fear
16. Crisis in Little Rock
17. The Court Vindicates the NAACP, 1958:
18. Crisis in Montgomery
19. Justice Douglas Vindicates the Negro Sit-ins, 1961
20. Policy and Reality in Negro Employment
21. A Southern Student is Loyal to the Traditions of the Old South
22. Equal Rights: The Unending Struggle
23. A Night of Terror in Plaquemine, Louisiana, 1963
24. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Writes a Letter From the Birmingham Jail
25. "We Face a Moral Crisis," June, 1963
26. Tragedy in Birmingham
27. Official Lawlessness in the South
28. Official Lawlessness: A Documentary Record
29. A Student Crusade to Mississippi, 1964: Letters Home
30. The End of the Poll Tax: The Twenty-Fourth Amendment, 1964
31. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
32. President Johnson Asks Congress to Redeem the Fifteenth Amendment, 1965
33. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
34. The Right to Vote: The Unending Struggle
35. The Dark Ghetto of Harlem
36. Watts
37. "The Barriers to Freedom Are Tumbling Down," 1965
38. The Emergence of Black Power
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Title: The struggle for racial equality : a documentary record / selected and edited by Henry Steele Commager.
Author: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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Source Version: The struggle for racial equality : a documentary record / selected and edited by Henry Steele Commager
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07399
Subject Headings: • African Americans -- Civil rights
• United States -- Race relations
Notes: • "Originally published as part 4, chapter 14, of Living ideas in America ... revised and greatly expanded"--T.p. verso.
• "Harper torchbooks," 12 p. at end, contains catalog of Harper publications (mostly) in the humanites.
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required
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