ISBN: 9780809324255 - Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks (42 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Good. 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 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, D.C., 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 analyzes Truman's 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. One of Gardner's essential and provocative points is that the Frederick Moore Vinson Supreme Court - a court significantly shaped by Truman - provided the legal basis for the nationwide integration that Truman could not get through the Congress. Challenging the myth that the civil rights movement began with Brown vs. Board of Education under Chief Justice Earl Warren, Gardner contends that the life-altering civil rights rulings by the Vinson Court desegregating higher education, housing, and interstate travel provided the necessary legal framework for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. 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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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 276 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Very good dust jacket. Owner's name / blind stamp front end paper. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 276 pages. forewords by George M. Elsey and Kweisi Mfume. approx. 1/4 inch of lower corner of first four pages have been neatly clipped off. ; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 ".

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (Number Line With The One Present). Includes Bibliographical References, Index And Chapter Notes. The Book Is Bound In Green Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering And Rules On The Spine. Usual Library Markings. The Jacket Has Been Protected By Clear Plastic. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Inscribed, signed by author on half title page] Hardcover and dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Light soiling to edge. Clean, unmarked pages. xx, 276 p., [20] p. of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. *Autographed by author.* Inscription reads: "To Richard Proster- With best wishes- Mickey Gardner". Signed. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. First edition, first printing, with full number line. Hardcover. Full green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine/lacking the dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Octavo, 276 pages, including Index. Gray endpapers. Forewords by George M. Elsey and Kweisi Mfume. A study of Truman's bold decision to advance civil rights in the face of deep political opposition. The book explores Truman's pivotal 1948 executive order desegregating the armed forces, and the broader legacy of his presidency on race relations and American democracy. Gardner was a senior counsel to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee and later served as U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This was his first book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge rubbing, shelf wear, some edge wear at top of spine. Examines Truman's public and private actions concerning Black Americans and Civil Rights. 9.25" tall; 276 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Southern Illinois University Press, 2002; Carbondale, Illinois. Hard Cover. Book condition: As New. Dust jacket condition: As New. Unstated edition, second printing with a number line starting with "2". Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. 9-1/4" tall, 275 numbered pages includes "Notes", "Bibliography" and "Index". This book is pristine: the exterior is square, spotlessly clean, free of corner bumps and edge dings with undamaged spine ends; hinges are strong. The interior is perfectly clean and completely free of writing, stray marks, stains and any sort of paper damage. Not remaindered, ex-library or Book Club edition. The dust jacket is clean and free of tears, scratches, scrapes, and fading; jacket is now protected by mylar jacket cover.…

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