The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964: A History in Documents

ISBN-13: 9780807168745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 392 str.

James P. Marshall

Opis

During the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy, his various secretaries, attorney general, civil rights staff of the Department of Justice, and his White House staff attempted to overcome the extreme opposition to achieving racial justice in Mississippi. That opposition appeared in many forms, but was most powerfully articulated by the state's congressmen and elected officials, all of whom used legal obstructionism or extra-legal actions to block Kennedy's aim to bring justice to Mississippi's African American community. In this volume, James Marshall collects a vast array of documents from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library that reveals the public the nature of Mississippi's opposition to racial justice. They also show the extent to which the Kennedy Administration's actions were parallel to but not necessarily supportive of what the Mississippi civil rights movement was attempting to accomplish. While a number of scholars have used source materials generated by the civil rights movement in Mississippi, this trove of sources available at the Kennedy Library have remained largely unexplored in examining what happened in the state.