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Author Sullivan, Patricia, 1950- author.

Title Justice rising : Robert Kennedy's America in black and white / Patricia Sullivan
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021
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Contents Preface: "The best a white America has to offer" -- Misfit -- Along the color line: the 1950s -- Faith, hope, and politics -- Black votes -- Simple justice -- The challenge of a decade -- Freedom now -- "A great change is at hand" -- On his own -- Beyond civil rights -- Suppose God is Black -- Reckoning -- The gravest crisis since the Civil War -- Our country's future -- A time of danger and questioning -- The last of the believables
Summary "A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s-and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2021)
Subject Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
SUBJECT Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 fast
Subject Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Racial justice -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Black people -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
Black people -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Racial justice
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674259782
0674259785
9780674259768
0674259769