Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents

This book is the tenth in the excellent series, Major Issues in American History, which in past volumes has highlighted such major issues in US history as War and Peace; Church‐State Relations; Freedom of Expression; Women's Rights; and Labor Relations. With Race Relations we come to another issue of continuing and critical concern.

Three features characterise this smartly‐produced and timely work. First, there are the substantial background essays, varying from six to ten pages, which introduce each of the 15 sub‐divisions of the subject. Second, there are the 95 reprinted extracts from original source documents which illustrate the issues...