Race Relations in the United States, 1940-1960

by Thomas J. Davis

Book Overview

The 1940s and 1950s were decades of far-reaching change and mobilization in the United States. White culture strove to make nonwhites invisible with segregation and discrimination as Southern blacks continued the Great Migration north and the government brought in Mexican labor via the Bracero Program to take up labor slack while U.S. troops were overseas. The rise of the civil rights movement and Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313342768
• ISBN13: 9780313342769
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"