The unknown architects of civil rights : Thaddeus Stevens, Ulysses S. Grant, and Charles Sumner
Winner of the prestigious Carey McWilliams Prize for best Undergraduate Honors History Thesis at the University of California, Los Angeles, "The Unknown Architects of Civil Rights" is a groundbreaking book that re-examines three of the most influential--but largely forgotten--civil rights leaders in American history. -- cover p.[4]
Print Book, English, ©2011
Critical Minds Press, Los Angeles, CA, ©2011
History
130 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780615504582, 0615504582
778556638
Introduction
The creation of an advocate
The fight for the 14th amendment
Old Thad Stevens remembered
"the American Sphinx"
A vision for suffrage
An undeserving legacy
A rebel from the start
The "crowning work" of Reconstruction
A civil rights leader ahead of his time