The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972

by Hugh Davis Graham

Book Overview

The civil rights era conjures up a wide range of dramatic images--sit-ins at segregated diners, burning churches, the massive march on Washington, police dogs and firehoses turned on protesters, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lying dead from an assassin's bullet. But off the streets another civil rights struggle was also waged, less violent and far less visible but no less momentous, as the vast machinery of the Federal government turned to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195045319
• ISBN13: 9780195045314
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"