Harry Truman and Civil RightsSIU Press, 2002 - 276 หน้า Given his background, President Truman was an unlikely champion of civil rights. Where he grew up--the border state of Missouri--segregation was accepted and largely unquestioned. Both his maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves, and his beloved mother, victimized by Yankee forces, railed against Abraham Lincoln for the remainder of her ninety-four years. When Truman assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945, Michael R. Gardner points out, Washington, DC, in many ways resembled Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid rule circa 1985. Truman's background notwithstanding, Gardner shows that it was Harry Truman--not Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, or John F. Kennedy--who energized the modern civil rights movement, a movement that basically had stalled since Abraham Lincoln had freed the slaves. Gardner recounts Truman's public and private actions regarding black Americans. He analyzes speeches, private conversations with colleagues, the executive orders that shattered federal segregation policies, and the appointments of like-minded civil rights activists to important positions. Among those appointments was the first black federal judge in the continental United States. Gardner characterizes Truman's evolution from a man who grew up in a racist household into a president willing to put his political career at mortal risk by actively supporting the interests of black Americans. |
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... confirmed my fundamental premise — that this Missouri - born president from a racist rural background acted unequivocally in the unpopular civil rights area because of his personal repugnance at the brutal and deadly racial ...
... confirmed my fundamental premise — that this Missouri - born president from a racist rural background acted unequivocally in the unpopular civil rights area because of his personal repugnance at the brutal and deadly racial ...
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... confirmed how personally determined President Truman was to expeditiously eliminating racism in the sprawling U.S. military infrastructure of the late 1940s and 1950s . The frank and often humorous recollections of Percy Sutton were ...
... confirmed how personally determined President Truman was to expeditiously eliminating racism in the sprawling U.S. military infrastructure of the late 1940s and 1950s . The frank and often humorous recollections of Percy Sutton were ...
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... confirmed once again Harry Truman's genuine humanity toward black Americans . Truman White House aide General Donald Dawson also provided me many good insights , particularly regarding the 1948 campaign . I am also grateful to James ...
... confirmed once again Harry Truman's genuine humanity toward black Americans . Truman White House aide General Donald Dawson also provided me many good insights , particularly regarding the 1948 campaign . I am also grateful to James ...
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... confirmed by the Independence Examiner of November 6 , 1922 , which reported that men stood Sunday morning at the doors of several protestant Churches in Independence as the people were leaving after the service and passed out pink ...
... confirmed by the Independence Examiner of November 6 , 1922 , which reported that men stood Sunday morning at the doors of several protestant Churches in Independence as the people were leaving after the service and passed out pink ...
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... confirmed how qui- etly resolute Truman was . Ending the war in Europe on May 8 , 1945 ; launching the United Nations on June 26 , 1945 ; confronting the legendary Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at Potsdam just ninety - four days ...
... confirmed how qui- etly resolute Truman was . Ending the war in Europe on May 8 , 1945 ; launching the United Nations on June 26 , 1945 ; confronting the legendary Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at Potsdam just ninety - four days ...
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The Report of Trumans Committee on Civil Rights October 29 1947 | 43 |
Trumans State of the Union Address January 7 1948 | 65 |
Trumans Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights February 2 1948 | 71 |
The 1948 Democratic Party Convention and the Civil Rights Plank July 1415 1948 | 87 |
The Turnip Day Congressional Session and Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 July 26 1948 | 105 |
Truman and the Vinson Court | 163 |
Trumans Howard University Commencement Address June 13 1952 | 198 |
Trumans Final Civil Rights Address in Harlem October 11 1952 | 210 |
The Truman Civil Rights Legacy | 216 |
Epilogue | 225 |
Notes | 231 |
Bibliography | 249 |
Index | 269 |
The Great Comeback Campaign and Trumans Harlem Speech October 29 1948 | 122 |
Civil Rights Progress Despite a Recalcitrant Congress 19491952 | 147 |
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Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks Michael R. Gardner มุมมองอย่างย่อ - 2002 |
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หน้า 193 - To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
หน้า 9 - The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.
หน้า 193 - ... tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does. In Sweatt v. Painter, supra, in finding that a segregated law school for Negroes could not provide them equal educational opportunities, this Court relied in large part on "those qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness in a law school.
หน้า 96 - The Democratic Party commits itself to continuing its efforts to eradicate all racial, religious and economic discrimination. We again state our belief that racial and religious minorities must have the right to live, the right to work, the right to vote, the full and equal protection of the laws, on a basis of equality with all citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution.
หน้า 32 - We must keep moving forward, with new concepts of civil rights to safeguard our heritage. The extension of civil rights today means, not protection of the people against the Government, but protection of the people by the Government.
หน้า 113 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the president that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.
หน้า 88 - I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.
หน้า 258 - Authorizing the Department of Defense and the Department of Commerce to exercise the functions set forth in title II of the First War Powers Act, 1941, as amended, and prescribing regulations therefor.
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