Examines the myriad consequences of World War II for racial attitudes and the presidential response to civil rights.

The United States has a troubling history of violence regarding race. This book explores the emotionally charged conditions and factors that incited the eruptio

Northern whites in the post–World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in

For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibil

World War II played an important role in the trajectory of race and American political development, but the War's effects were much more complex than many assum