Clay Risen
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Offers a full account of the complex battle to get the Civil Rights bill passed.
"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But...
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