Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the Us Federal Government

by Desmond King

Book Overview

Segregation in Federal government agencies and programs has been little appreciated as a key trait of American race relations in the decades before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Federal government used its power to impose a segregated pattern of race relations among its employees and, through its programs, upon the whole of American society well beyond the Mason-Dixon line. This pattern structured the relationship between black Americans and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019829249X
• ISBN13: 9780198292494
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"