“Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights”: Michigan, 1948-1968 (Great Lakes Books Series)

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Even if historians have devoted quite a lot of attention to the improvement of federal government policy relating to civil rights within the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally vital developments on the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting “an ugly picture.” Two decades later, Michigan was once a leader some of the states in civil rights legislation. “Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights” documents this vital shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped.

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