|
|
Article: Sidney Fine. "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Michigan Historical Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Clarke Historical Library. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Sidney Fine. "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Pp. 448. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $44.95.
As Sidney Fine asserts in the first chapter of his latest work, "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights, "Michigan's civil rights situation in 1948 clearly was "an ugly picture." Using that opening declaration as a base, Fine details and analyzes Michigan's tumultuous progress toward expanding civil rights for all its citizens. Because the national civil rights story usually overshadows equally important civil rights accomplishments at the state and local levels, Fine wants to ...