Politics & Government
mobi |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Klarman, Michael J. [Klarman, Michael J.]

In 1954, the Court played a vanguard role in school desegregation. Half of the nation supported Brown from the day it was decided, but it was the justices who had ...
( Category: Rules & Procedures September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Taylor Branch

During the six-week gestation of the Albany Movement, King unwittingly approached the Albany jail on an airborne path of exhaustion. He arrived home from London just as the November 1 ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Patterson, James T. [Patterson, James T.]

But Moynihan soon learned that Nixon planned to circulate the memo, with his annotations on it, to the cabinet. Fearing a leak, he called presidential aide H. R. Haldeman and ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Terry H. Anderson

The events of that week outraged activists and many liberals. Antiwar students felt that the nomination of Humphrey demonstrated that the Democratic party was hopeless, controlled by a corrupt machine. ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Charles M. Payne

MASS MEETINGS: LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS “It is said that these people accumulate into crowds and then by their speeches are exhorted into frenzy and then seek to march ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Bayard Rustin

Rustin to A. Philip Randolph and Others After drafting the proposal for a march on Washington, Rustin returned to Dar Es Salaam in February to carry out more work for ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Arsenault, Raymond [Arsenault, Raymond]

Bob Moses, 1962. (Photograph by Danny Lyon, Magnum) Joined by John Hardy, a Tennessee State student from Nashville, and Reggie Robinson, a SNCC activist from Baltimore, Moses spent two weeks ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-27 | Author:Patterson, James T. [Patterson, James T.]

THE POLITICAL SCENE DURING JUNE AND JULY 1965, LARGELY unaffected by cultural developments, continued to reveal the contagious power of rights-oriented political causes as well as LBJ’s impatient but effective ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Taylor Branch

31 Riot Politics KING SPENT MONDAY, July 27, in a crossfire of mediation between Harlem and New York’s City Hall. There, far removed from the rural culture of segregated Mississippi, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2001-03-01 | Author:James T. Patterson

Most top federal officials, however, remained committed in the late 1960s to desegregation of the schools. This was a high tide of expectations, especially among the rapidly expanding officialdom of ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:David J. Garrow

Estimated Percentage of Voting-Age Blacks Registered Estimated Number of Black Registrants 1966 1967 1968 1966 1967 1968 Alabama 51.2 53.1 56.7 246,396 255,000 273,000 Arkansas 59.7 62.8 67.5 115,000 121,000 ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Thomas F. Jackson

Poverty Politics and the Urban Crisis During the summer of 1965, King scouted northern cities, searching for a key to the ghetto, an entry point into a multicelled prison of ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:James T. Patterson

Such broad explanations were as difficult to document as they had been in earlier periods. Individualism and the work ethic were virtually unmeasurable, and similar values appeared to be just ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Mark Bray

FOUR FIVE HISTORICAL LESSONS FOR ANTI-FASCISTS This chapter briefly analyzes five lessons that many antifascists draw, or, I believe, should draw from history. Each lesson begins with a more factual ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Ramachandra Guha [Guha, Ramachandra]

Chapter Thirteen The Renewed Agendas of M.K. Gandhi The volumes of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi run chronologically, from the 1880s to the 1940s. On many subjects, a later ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )