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Poor People’s Campaign

Charles Fager, Uncertain Resurrection(1969), and Gerald McKnight,

Last Crusade(1998), describe the events of King’s ill-fated attempt to

address poverty.

Courts

Don Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case(1978), and Charles Lofgren, The

Plessy Case(1987), analyze two fateful cases. John Howard, The Shifting

Wind(1999), traces the winding path on race taken by the US Supreme

Court between Reconstruction and Brown. J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, From

Brown to Bakke(1979), follows the Court’s changing attitudes on school

desegregation. Tinsley Yarbrough has written an excellent biography of a

foresighted federal judge in South Carolina, A Passion for Justice: J. Waties

Waring and Civil Rights(1987). Jack Peltason, Fifty-Eight Lonely Men

(1961), and Jack Bass, Unlikely Heroes(1981), report on the role of federal

judges in desegregating southern schools. In Federal Law and Southern

Order(1987), Michal Belknap observes that before 1964 Washington gener-

ally gave the South a free hand concerning racial violence. Tony Freyer, The

Little Rock Crisis(1984), argues that constitutional questions overshadowed

moral concerns. Paul Moreno, From Direct Action to Affirmative Action

(1997), traces race-conscious employment remedies to the Great Depression

era. Donald Nieman, Promises to Keep(1991), looks at the ambivalent rela-

tionship that blacks have had with the Constitution. Gail Williams O’Brien,

The Color of the Law(1999) dissects the legal system’s failure to mete out

justice after a 1946 race riot in Tennessee.

Politics

Kenneth O’Reilly, Nixon’s Piano (1995), explores racial politics from

Washington to Clinton. Paul Burstein, Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics

(1985), treats equal employment law since FDR. Truman’s civil rights record

is discussed in Donald McCoy and Richard Ruetten, Quest and Response

(1973), and Michael Gardner, Harry Truman and Civil Rights (2002).

Dwight Eisenhower’s record is considered in J.W. Anderson, Eisenhower,

Brownell, and Congress (1964), and Robert Burk, The Eisenhower

Administration and Black Civil Rights(1984). Hanes Walton, Jr., When the

Marching Stopped(1988), examines the workings of new civil rights regula-

tory agencies. The Kennedy administration’s evolution on civil rights is

presented in Carl Brauer, John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction

(1977), James Giglio, The Presidency of John F. Kennedy(1991), Harris

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