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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- Signed By
- Mary Frances Berry
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Signed
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780307263209
- Book Title
- And Justice for All : The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Law, History, Political Science
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 27.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America. Mary Frances Berry, the commission's chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True ("An essential chapter in American history from a distinguished historian"-Nell Painter), tells of the commission's founding in 1957 by President Eisenhower, in response to burgeoning civil rights protests; how it was designed to be an independent bipartisan Federal agency-made up of six members, with no more than three from one political party, free of interference from Congress and presidents-beholden to no government body, with full subpoena power, and free to decide what it would investigate and report on. Berry writes that the commission, rather than producing reports that would gather dust on the shelves, began to hold hearings even as it was under attack from Southern segregationists. She writes how the commission's hearings and reports helped the nonviolent protest movement prick the conscience of the nation then on the road to dismantling segregation, beginning with the battles in Montgomery and Little Rock, the sit-ins and freedom rides, the March on Washington. We see how reluctant government witnesses and local citizens overcame their fear of reprisal and courageously came forward to testify before the commission; how the commission was instrumental in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; how Congress soon added to the commission's jurisdiction the overseeing of discriminating practices-with regard to sex, age, and disability-which helped in the enactment of the Age Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Berry writes about how the commission's monitoring of police community relations and affirmative action was fought by various U.S. presidents, chief among them Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, each of whom fired commissioners who disagreed with their policies, among them Dr. Berry, replacing them with commissioners who supported their ideological objectives; and how these commissioners began to downplay the need to remedy discrimination, ignoring reports of unequal access to health care and employment opportunities. Finally, Dr. Berry's book makes clear what is needed for the future: a reconfigured commission, fully independent, with an expanded mandate to help oversee all human rights and to make good the promise of democracy-equal protection under the law regardless of race, color, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or national origin.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307263207
ISBN-13
9780307263209
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69637710
Product Key Features
Book Title
And Justice for All : The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
27.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Jc599.U5b45 2009
Reviews
"A powerful and inspiring story of the American civil rights movementa story of change, vision and courage. Change has come to America and one of the ways it happened was through the work of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, formed against all odds in 1957 by President Eisenhower and the Congress. The commission, during its five decades on the battlefront of injustice and inequality, moved far beyond Eisenhower's initial vision for it, and became a major factor in the success of the civil rights movement that has led us to the victories we enjoy today. Attacked and undermined at times by politicians and unsympathetic Presidents, the commission invited ordinary people to testify at its hearings in their towns and cities and in Washington, D.C. Sometimes under threat of reprisal, even death, those struggling for equal justice came to rely upon the commission's impartiality, and independence. It was the commission's reports and recommendations that helped to gain the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the language minority protections enacted in 1975, the Age Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Mary Frances Berry, the commission's chairperson for a decade, has written its too little-known history. It is an important, galvanizing and moving book." President Bill Clinton
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-032655
Dewey Decimal
323.0973
Dewey Edition
22
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