RFK and MLK visions of hope, 1963-1968
Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lived parallel lives. Their leadership helped millions of Americans recover from the assassination of John F. Kennedy and inspired hope for a more peaceful and egalitarian society (which endured well after their own tragic deaths five years later). This...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Jack's been shot
- Part I. America in the wake of tragedy, 1963
- November 22, 1963
- "Let us continue"
- Part II. Forging a new American identity, 1964
- Finding a voice
- "The hearts and minds of youth"
- "The clock of destiny is ticking out"
- Freedom and the world
- New awakenings
- Part III. Marching on and hitting full stride, 1965-1966
- Selma
- Bloody Sunday and the aftermath
- "The crises of the moment"
- Urban crisis, voting rights and Watts
- "Ripples of hope"
- Part IV. Visions of America, 1967-1968
- "A coalition of conscience"
- "Beyond Vietnam"
- "A newer world"
- 1968
- Epilogue: Selma, 2015.
