Forging the Civil Rights Frontier: How Truman's Committee Set the Liberal Agenda for Reform 1947-1965
At the close of 1946, a year marked by domestic white-on-black violence, Harry S. Truman, in a dramatic move, established the President’s Committee on Civil Rights (PCCR). Five years before, his predecessor Franklin D. Roosevelt had formed the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), under pressu...
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Digital Archive @ GSU
2012
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/30 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=history_diss |