Research Catalog

Title

The quest for the dream; the development of civil rights and human relations in modern America.

Author

Roche, John P. (John Pearson), 1923-1994

Publication

New York, Macmillan [1963]

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Details

Description

xii, 308 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "With authority, wit and the perspective of reason, the author [John P. Roche] documents the extraordinary advances since 1913 in the the attitudes of the law, the Federal government, and -- most vitally -- the public itself toward the rights and basic liberties of minority and nonconformist groups within the United States. He illustrates the revolution brought about by the urbanization of American society, the "Walpurgis Night" of World War I and its aftermath, and the new dawn of hope that rose with the New Deal.
• He describes the roles of the Anti-Defamation League, the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP, and the Supreme Court, among other groups, in advancing struggle against the Ku Klux Klan, the "Palmerites" and the "Yakoos," the entrenched trusts, the Huey Longs, and Father Coughlins, the white supremacists, the Bund, and MCCarthyism. On the debit side of the ledger, Mr. Roche deals frankly withe the hysterical evacuation and internment during World War II of West Coast Japanese Americans." -- Book Jacket.

Subject

• American Civil Liberties Union > History
• B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League > History
• Civil rights > United States
• Civil rights > United States > History > 20th century
• Minorities > United States
• Minorities > United States > History > 20th century
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > History
• Since 1900
• United States > Social conditions > 1945-

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 271-290)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- The dawn of an epoch -- Walfurges Night, the "Great War" -- The Red hunt -- Tribal and religious wars (1914-1927) -- The years of the locust -- The New Deal: the years of reconciliation-- The decline and fall of the Yahoos (19133-1941) -- The "good war" -- Communism and internal insecurity -- The struggle for full equality -- The past and the future.

LCCN

^^^63015697^

OCLC

230795

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library