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After fifty years as observer and participant on the front lines of the civil rights movement, Harry Ashmore finds the nation still unable, or unwilling, to face up to the basic issues posed in Gunnar Myrdal's classic An American Dilemma.
In this memoir, Ashmore takes up where Myrdal left off in 1944, giving us a retrospective view of the causes and effects of the post-World War II civil rights movement, considering it in the context of the political developments that both advanced and hindered its effectiveness.
As executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, Ashmore led the fight against Governor Orval Faubus when he closed Little Rock's Central High School in defiance of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. As the protest by blacks spread across the nation, Ashmore was present at the heart of the action as journalist, academic, foundation executive, and adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
He has won Pulitzer Prizes for himself and his newspaper and has produced a body of work that makes up a unique chronicle of a turbulent era. Civil Rights and Wrongs is a powerful and important reappraisal of the American Dilemma by a man who has viewed it from the eye of the storm it has spawned.
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Politics and government, Race relations, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, African Americans, History, Geschichte 1944-1994, Bürgerrechtsbewegung, African americans, politics and government, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, United states, race relations, Civil rights, united statesPlaces
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Civil rights and wrongs: a memoir of race and politics, 1944-1996
1997, University of South Carolina Press
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Civil Rights & Wrongs
August 12, 1995, Random House Value Publishing
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Civil rights and wrongs: a memoir of race and politics 1944-1994
1994, Pantheon Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-413) and index.
"A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
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