Justice rising : Robert Kennedy's America in black and white

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Justice rising : Robert Kennedy's America in black and white

Patricia Sullivan

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021

  • : cloth

Available at  / 3 libraries

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Includes index

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

  • 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
  • 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
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