Author : Gretchen Cassel Eick
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0252026837
Dissent in Wichita by Gretchen Cassel Eick Pdf
"Through her close study of events in Wichita, Eick reveals the civil rights movement as a national, not a southern, phenomenon. She focuses particularly on Chester I. Lewis, Jr., a key figure in the local as well as the national NAACP. Lewis initiated one of the earliest investigations of de facto school desegregation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and successfully challenged employment discrimination in the nation's largest aircraft industries."--BOOK JACKET.