Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 The Preconditions for Racial Change 11 The New Deal and Race Relations 21 The Detroit Race Riot of 1943 43 Racial Militancy and Interracial Violence in the Second World War 65 African American Militancy in the World War II South: Another Perspective 93 Willkie as Liberal: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 129 African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust 147 Harry Truman and the Election of 1948: The Coming of Age of Civil Rights in American Politics 175 Martin Luther King Jr.: Seeing Lazarus, 1967–1968 197 The Second Reconstruction 215 Index 225 ...