Provides over three hundred concise descriptions of the important people, organizations, events, and the multitude of executive orders, legislative acts, and judicial decisions which played crucial roles in the historic transformation of American society after World War II.
Author Biography
Ralph E. Luker is adjunct professor of history at Morehouse College. He has written several books including The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vols. 1-2 (1992,1994) which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and The Social Gospel in Black and White (1991), which won an Outstanding Book Award.
