American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

by David W. Blight

Book Overview

Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, "One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free." He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil War Commission published a guide proclaiming that "the Centennial is no time for finding fault or placing blame or fighting the issues all over again."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674725972
• ISBN13: 9780674725973
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"