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| Title | : | And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307263207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
In addition to having been the chairperson of the U.S. Mary Frances Berry was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She received a bachelor’s and master’s degree at Howard University, a doctorate in history from the University of Michigan, and a juris doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. Dr. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Berry is Geraldine R.
She writes how the commission’s hearings and reports helped the nonviolent protest movement prick the conscience of the nation then on the road to dismantling segregation, beginning with the battles in Montgomery and Little Rock, the sit-ins and freedom rides, the March on Washington.We see how reluctant government witnesses and local citizens overcame their fear of reprisal and courageously came forward to testify before the commission; how the commission was instrumental in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; how Congress soon added to the commission’s jurisdiction the overseeing of discrim
Although Democratic presidents, including Carter and Clinton, have had their difficulties with the commission, it was Reagan and both presidents Bush who sought to undercut the commission’s independent fact-finding and reporting functions in favor of complete support for their administrations’ policies. Commission on Civil Rights, examines the struggle of this body to maintain its independence in monitoring the U.S. --Vernon Ford . She recommends that the commission both refocus on its original commi
"A compelling story" according to David Eiland. Dr Berry has written a compelling story of the troubled history of the Civil Rights Commission. It focuses on the people who came to the Commission for help and not just on the Commissioners. It includes numerous pictures of the ordinary people who were helped. It also includes details of the conflicts with successive Presidents who were reluctant to enforce civil rights - some of whom will surprise you. It traces the history of the Commission which time and again had to struggle to maintain it's existence against numerous forces bent on it's destruction.Not only is it a very scholar. A story worth telling Emily Tynes I did not realize the major role this little known government agency played in turning the hopes of the civil rights movement into law that has changed America. The author details how Commissioners courageously held hearings and made investigations even when threatened by local opponents of the change the civil rights protestors sought. More importantly. people who suffered abuse from beatings and shootings and whose livelihoods were threatened came to tell the Commission their concerns and received help. The commissioners also took on government officials even presidents who were sl. How the civil rights commission didn't get enough respect John D. Sens Mary Frances Barry's biased, self-congratulatory, polemic of the trials and travails of the civil rights commission over the past decades and her brilliant participation in it. Lots of minutae especially in discussing how presidential administrations, after Eisenhower, were not as deferential to the commission as she believes they should have been. She blames the Reagan administration particularly for inflicting permanent damage on the commission. Barry reaches the conclusion du jour that there has been progress in civil rights since Eisenhower was president but there is still a long
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