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Knocking Down Barriers - My Fight for Black America

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book is the memoir of Truman K. Gibson Jr., a civil rights advocate and attorney who campaigned to integrate the military and end restrictive housing covenants, and a sports executive in the world of boxing.

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Truman K. Gibson Jr was the civilian aide to the secretary of war during World War II, a member of two presidential advisory committees, and the president of the International Boxing Club. Gibson was the first African American to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit. He is an attorney in Chicago.

Steve Huntley is the editor of the Chicago Sun-Times editorial page and a former senior editor at U.S. News and World Report.

Summary

A firsthand account of the nitty-gritty of twentieth-century race relations in the worlds of law, the military, sports, and entertainment, Truman Gibson's memoir is also an engaging recollection of encounters with the likes of Thurgood Marshall, W. E. B. DuBois, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Patton, Jackie Robinson, and Joe Louis, among others.

Product details

Authors Truman K. Gibson Jr, Steve Huntley, Truman K. Gibson Jr., Truman K. Gibson Huntley Jr.
Publisher Northwestern University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.08.2021
 
EAN 9780810143807
ISBN 978-0-8101-4380-7
No. of pages 344
Series Chicago Lives
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies

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