Presents the release and reception of Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" then and in the forty-five years since.
That public appeal , dubbed the Hoffman letter after its author , AJC president Philip Hoffman , stood as the centerpiece of a mobilization that targeted hiring and admissions in higher education but affected all government affirmative ...
Melinda Hernandez quoted in Susan Eisenberg, We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working in Construction (Ithaca, N.Y., 1998), 26–28. The title of this chapter comes from the poem “Pioneering (for the Tradeswomen of ...
In Freedom Is Not Enough (a quote from Lyndon Johnson's 1965 commencement address to Howard University just before signing the Voting Rights Act), Ron Walters traces the history of the Black vote since 1965, celebrates its fortieth ...
Beeth, Howard, and Cary Wintz, eds. Black Dixie: Afro Texan History and Culture in Houston. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992. Beinart, Peter. “The Rehabilitation of the Cold War Liberal.” New York Times Magazine, ...
In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice.
(New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), pp. 461–62. 9 William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, with a Retrospective Essay (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), p. 355.
Cultural observer Os Guinness argues that the American experiment in freedom is at risk. Guinness calls us to cultivate the essential civic character needed for ordered liberty and sustainable freedom.
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At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of ...
As this book afirms, the resurgence of overt activities by hate groups—both the old traditional ones (e.g., the Ku Klux Klan) and the new ones (e.g., the Skin Heads)—however much the hard work and sacrifices of the modern civil rights ...