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Justice rising : Robert Kennedy's America in black and white
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"A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s--and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to ...
"A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s--and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time"--
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- Creator
- Patricia Sullivan
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 515 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674259768, 9780674259782, 0674259769, 0674259785, 9780674737457, 0674737458
- OCLC
- on1250271740, on1198017183
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-491) and index.
- Preface: "The best a white America has to offer" -- Misfit -- Along the color line: the 1950s -- Faith, hope, and politics -- Black votes -- Simple justice -- The challenge of a decade -- Freedom now -- "A great change is at hand" -- On his own -- Transitions -- Beyond civil rights -- Suppose God is Black -- Reckoning -- The gravest crisis since the Civil War -- Our country's future -- A time of danger and questioning -- The last of the believables -- Epilogue