Research Catalog

Title

Separate and unequal : Black Americans and the US federal government / Desmond King.

Author

King, Desmond S.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Description

xiv, 352 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Using extensive and original archival sources, Desmond King demonstrates in vivid detail how the American Federal government affected its Black employees for half a century. He documents how instead of thwarting segregated race relations, the Federal government participated in their maintenance and diffusion. This, the book's first major theme, is explored through detailed examination of Federal government departments and programs. The book's second major theme is that segregated race relations resulted in intense inequality for Black Americans.

Subject

• African Americans in the civil service
• African Americans > Segregation
• United States > African Americans
• United States > Race relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-329) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Politics of Segregation in Post-Reconstruction America -- 2. Joining the Government: 'Because I Dared to be Black' -- 3. Working in a Federal Agency: Social Ostracism and Discrimination -- 4. 'A Great Shadow over our "Civil Rights"': Fighting for the Government -- 5. Serving Time with the Government: Federal Penitentiaries -- 6. The Federal Government in a Segregated Society: Public Employment Exchanges and Housing Programmes -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. The Politics of Segregation in the United States -- Appendix 2. Segregation in Government -- Appendix 3. Statistical Profile of Black American Employees in the Federal Government -- Appendix 4. Strikes settled by the FEPC 1943-1944 -- Appendix 5. Major Civil Rights Laws 1957-1991.

ISBN

0198280165 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^95005865^

OCLC

32087313

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library