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Lion in the lobby : Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s struggle for the passage of civil rights laws / / Denton L. Watson



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Autore: Watson Denton L. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Lion in the lobby : Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s struggle for the passage of civil rights laws / / Denton L. Watson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2002
©2002
Edizione: Revised edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (919 p.)
Disciplina: 323/.092
Soggetto topico: African Americans
Civil rights workers - United States
African Americans - Civil rights
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
États-Unis Relations raciales
United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Biographies.
History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Lion In The Lobby ; Contents ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part One: Journey Toward the Promised Land ; 1. Trauma of a Lynching ; 2. Covering the Scottsboro Trials ; 3. A Star Is a Small Reward ; 4. Neither North nor South ; 5. A Man is Molded ; 6. Launching a Career ; 7. The FEPC Grail ; 8. NAACP Labor Secretary ; 9. Taking Command ; 10. All-Out Attack on Segregation ; 11. Confronting the Agony ; 12. Shifting Strategy ; 13. At the Crossroads ; 14. Breakthrough ; 15. The Undaunted Optimist ; Part Two: Fulfilling a Dream ; 16. Challenge of the New Frontier
17. Honing Political Support 18. Guiding the Forces Through the Turbulence ; 19. The 1964 Act: A Dream Realized ; 20. 101st Senator ; 21. ""Our Quaterback"" ; 22. Confronting the Politics of Reaction ; Epilogue ; Appendix 1 Civil Rights Bills: Parliamentary Procedures ; Appendix 2 Differences Between voting Proposals and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; Appendix 3 What's in the Civil Rights Act? ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Principal Cases Cited ; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Lion in the Lobby chronicles Clarence Mitchell's life story and mission of getting Congress to join the courts and the Executive Branch in upholding the Constitution in order to fulfill the NAACP's egalitarian philosophy.
Titolo autorizzato: Lion in the lobby  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7618-6451-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798067803321
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