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1. African Americans and World War II.

Author

Kersten, Andrew E.

Abstract

Focuses on the experience of African Americans during World War II on the homefront and in the armed forces. States that African Americans not only fought fascism overseas but also apartheid in the United States, also known as the "Double V." (CMK)

Published
2002

4. Workers against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO.

Author

Kersten, Andrew E.

Subjects
INTERNATIONALIZED territories, LEGAL judgments, FREEDOM of speech, CIVIL rights
Abstract

The legal strategy failed, as Judge Clark ruled in favor of the CIO and the ACLU and ruled that not only had Hague and his police acted illegally but also that the local ordinances from 1924, 1930, and 1935 were all unconstitutional. Donald R. Rogers sets out to provide a historiographical corrective by situating Hague and his legal battles with the Committee for Industrial Organization / Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) within the larger contexts of the era. Rogers argues, however, that "the grand economic, political, and legal realities of the 1930s [were] as much responsible for the CIO-Hague conflict as were the mayor's abuses and the CIO-ACLU efforts to stop him" (6). [Extracted from the article]

Published
2022
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6. Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Book).

Author

Kersten, Andrew E.

Subjects
*CIVIL rights, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,' edited by Bernard Grofman.

Published
2002

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