John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for - Civil Right

Informationen zum Autor Brandon K. Winford is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is a historian of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century United States and African American history with areas of specialization in civil rights and black business history. Klappentext Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners. Zusammenfassung In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation.

Product details

• Authors: Brandon K Winford, Brandon K. Winford
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780813178257
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-7825-7
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle; Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education