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The Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, Pennsylvania 1997 "Revised papers of a symposium presented at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., during Oct. 1994, Published in association with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies." Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Ken, my Philadelphia connection, in friendship and appreciation. John Higham Sept. 1997" "Ken" is Dr. Kenneth L. Kusmer, at present Professor Emeritus of History at Temple University. viii, 223 p.; 23.5 cm. (9.25 inches). Green cloth, with gilt-stamped spine title. Glossy color dust jacket, with a significant black and white photograph on the back section, taken by actor and marcher Dennis Hopper, showing a band of professors on the historic civil rights march from Selma in 1965, raising an impromptu standard while entering Montgomery, former capital of the Confederacy. The professors shown are John Hope Franklin, John Higham, Arthur Mann, William Leuchtenburg, Mark Haller, Bradford Perkins, and Kenneth Stampp. Includes Notes, List of Contributors and Index. "The persistence of racial inequality in a democratic society may be the gravest problem confronting the United States. It has surely been the most intractable. Yet the torrent of scholarship and comment unleashed in recent years by the question of race provides a general reader with little overall understanding of the solutions attempted and the resulting outcomes. To restore the big picture, John Higham and The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies have brought together nine original essays - plus a tenth already published essay that deserves to be more widely known. Together these essays offer the most compact comprehensive appraisal we have of how the modern civil rights movement arose, what changes it brought about in relationships between blacks and whites, and how it led to affirmative action, to multiculturalism, and eventually to the present stalemate and discontent" [from the dust jacket]. The contributors, both black and white, are leading scholars in their respective disciplines. They are Christopher Beem, Lawrence Bobo, Erwin Chemerinsky, Gerald Early, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Lawrence H. Fuchs, Nathan Glazer, John Higham, Douglas S. Massey, and Diane Ravitch.
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