Calculating Visions: Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights

by Mark Stem and Mark Stern

Book Overview

In June 1963, in the midst of national turmoil brought about by civil rights demonstrations, John Kennedy sent his administration's first major civil rights bill to the Congress. Still unsure about this move, he asked his brother Robert, "Do you think we did the right thing?" Within days of assuming the presidency, Lyndon Johnson publicly committed himself to civil rights as a "memorial" to his predecessor. Privately he told Georgia's Senator Richard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813517443
• ISBN13: 9780813517445
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"