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010 $a 2005035495
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100 1 $aBryant, Nick$q(Nicholas Andrew)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005090636
245 14 $aThe bystander :$bJohn F. Kennedy and the struggle for Black equality /$cNick Bryant.
260 $aNew York :$bBasic Books,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $aviii, 545 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 521-529) and index.
520 1 $a"In the summer of 1963, in the wake of the Birmingham riots and hundreds of other protests across the country, John F. Kennedy advanced the most far-reaching civil rights bill any president had ever put before Congress. Why had he waited so long? Kennedy had been acutely aware of the issue of race - both its political perils and opportunities - since his first Congressional campaign in Boston in 1946." "In this, the first comprehensive history of Kennedy's civil rights record over the course of his entire political career, Nick Bryant shows that Kennedy's shrewd handling of the race issue in his early congressional campaigns blinded him as President to the intractability of the simmering racial crisis in America. By focusing on mainly symbolic gestures, Kennedy missed crucial opportunities to confront the obstructionist Southern bloc and to enact genuine reform. Kennedy's inertia emboldened white supremacists, and forced black activists to adopt increasingly militant tactics." "At the outset of his presidency, Kennedy squandered the chance to forge a national consensus on race. For many of his thousand days in office, he remained a bystander as the civil rights battle flared in the streets of America. In the final months of his life, Kennedy could no longer control the rage he had fueled with his erratic handling of this explosive issue."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aKennedy, John F.$q(John Fitzgerald),$d1917-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055297
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100199
650 0 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100355
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1961-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140469
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005035495.html
852 00 $bglx$hE842.1$i.B79 2006
852 00 $bbar$hE842.1$i.B79 2006