ISBN: | 9780805096736 |
Publisher: | Henry Holt and Co. |
Published: | 1 April, 2014 |
Format: | eBook |
A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passageIt was a turbulent time in America-a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a March on Washington and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door-when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to bar racial discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol H
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