Dissent in Wichita
Author | : Gretchen Cassel Eick |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780252026836 |
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"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.