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Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice - The Civil Rights Tapes (Paperback)
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Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice - The Civil Rights Tapes (Paperback)
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This remarkable book is composed of actual transcripts most never
before published from the secret recordings that Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson made of White House meetings and telephone
conversations between the violent crisis in 1962, when James
Meredith attempted to enroll at the all-white University of
Mississippi, and the groundbreaking passage of the Civil Rights Act
in 1964. Setting these transcripts within an historical narrative,
Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell present the story of
America's struggle for racial equality during two tumultuous years.
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice brings the reader into
the room as Kennedy argues with Mississippi governor Ross Barnett
and the white business leaders of Birmingham, Alabama, and as
Johnson makes late-night phone calls to Martin Luther King Jr.,
NAACP head Roy Wilkins, and Washington Post publisher Katherine
Graham. As fly-on-the-wall history, this book gives us an
unprecedented grasp of the way the White House affected civil
rights history and consequently transformed America. Part of the
Presidential Recordings Project, Miller Center of Public Affairs,
University of Virginia, General Editors: Ernest May and Philip
Zelikow."
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