Hugh Davis Graham
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The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972
Hugh Davis Graham
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 task of securing equal rights.
The Civil Rights Era offers the first comprehensive history of this other side of the battle for civil rights. Based on extensive research in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidential archives, the National Archives, and special collections of the Library of Congress, this groundbreaking study recreates the intense debates in Congress and the White House that led to the breakthrough laws of 1964 and 1965—the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act—which banned discrimination against minorities and women. Graham then follows the implementation of these policies through a thickening maze of federal…
