First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson
Published by Times Books, New York, 2007
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First edition. 359pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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- Title
- First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson
- Author
- LONG, Michael G., edited by
- Publisher
- Times Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0805087109
- ISBN 13
- 9780805087109
- Edition
- 1st Edition
In First Class Citizenship, Jackie Robinson comes alive on the page for the first time in decades. The scholar Michael G. Long has unearthed a remarkable trove of Robinson's correspondence with--and personal replies from--such towering figures as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, and Barry Goldwater. These extraordinary conversations reveal the scope and depth of Robinson's effort during the 1950s and 1960s to rid America of racism.
Writing eloquently and with evident passion, Robinson charted his own course, offering his support to Democrats and to Republicans, questioning the tactics of the civil rights movement, and challenging the nation's leaders when he felt they were guilty of hypocrisy--or worse. Through his words as well as his actions, Jackie Robinson truly personified the "first class citizenship" that he considered the birthright of all Americans, whatever their race.
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