Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the
development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in
the quarter century following World War II, little attention has
been paid to the equally important developments at the state level.
Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to
civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on
Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as
presenting "an ugly picture". Twenty years later. Michigan was a
leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the
Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state
level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced
not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant
workers, and the physically handicapped.
Sidney Fine's treatment of civil rights in Michigan is based on
an exhaustive examination of unpublished, published, and interview
sources. Fine relates civil rights developments in Michigan to
civil rights actions by the federal government and other states. He
focuses on the administrations of the three governors -- Democrats
G. Mennen Williams (1949-1960), and John B. Swainson (1961-1962),
and Republican George Romney (1963-1969) -- and the roles they
played in furthering civil rights in Michigan, as well as other
politicians and policymakers.
Students of state history, civil rights history, and those
interested in post-World War II history will find few accounts as
broad ranging as this study of state civil rights legislation
during the years the book covers.
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