Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights: Michigan, 1948-1968Wayne State University Press, 2000 - 441 strani Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture". Twenty years later. Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped. Sidney Fine's treatment of civil rights in Michigan is based on an exhaustive examination of unpublished, published, and interview sources. Fine relates civil rights developments in Michigan to civil rights actions by the federal government and other states. He focuses on the administrations of the three governors -- Democrats G. Mennen Williams (1949-1960), and John B. Swainson (1961-1962), and Republican George Romney (1963-1969) -- and the roles they played in furthering civil rights in Michigan, as well as other politicians and policymakers. Students of state history, civil rights history, and those interested in post-World War II history will find few accounts as broad ranging as this study of state civil rights legislation during the years the book covers. |
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PREFACE | 9 |
Fair Employment Practices | 63 |
WRESTLING WITH THE CAUSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS | 97 |
The Aged Women Native Americans | 137 |
Migrant Farm Labor 19491962 | 163 |
THE DEMOCRATS MUST STAND UP AND BE COUNTED | 183 |
CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION OF 1963 | 191 |
1963 | 215 |
DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION PUBLIC | 249 |
THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED 19641968 | 271 |
THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION LAW ENFORCEMENT | 313 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 409 |