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McCulloch of Ohio : For the Republic by Mark Bernstein (2014, Hardcover)

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A story of civic valor - the willingness to place nation ahead of self and justice ahead of expediency. William Moore McCulloch played a pivotal role in the passage of the major civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

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PublisherCrown Equipment Corporation

ISBN-100692204369

ISBN-139780692204368

eBay Product ID (ePID)204190857

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SubjectGeneral

Publication Year2014

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMcculloch of Ohio : for the Republic

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMark Bernstein

FormatHardcover

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-938641

SynopsisThis is a story of human unlikelihood. Of an Ohio farm boy who grew up in an all-white villa attended an all-white colle graduated in an all-white law school class; yet as the long-term congressman from a largely conservative and overwhelmingly white district was one of the handful of Americans who made the civil rights revolution. That conclusion is shared by those who were there. Then-serving Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach said, "We would not have a Civil Rights Act of 1964 or a Voting Rights Acts of 1965 were it not for William McCulloch. God knows what would have happened to this country if those bills had not become law.11 His words were echoed by Clarence Mitchell, for three decades the lead Washington lobbyist of the NAACP, who compared McCulloch to the 300 Spartans who died at Thermopylae, for the decade-long struggle for equality during which "like the Spartans of old, Congressman McCulloch's courage and moral commitment became more evident." Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wrote to McCulloch: "I know that you, more than anyone, were responsible for the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, and particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964." He was recognized by the press. Adam Clymer of The New York Times wrote: "McCulloch was absolutely essential to the passage of the most important law of the twentieth century the 1964 Civil Rights Act." He was recognized by his peers, such as Iowa Congressman Fred Schwengel, who called him "one of the greatest legislators of all time." And he was recognized by clergymen, such as Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and for sixteen years chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission: "To the growing number of Americans who declare that they are losing faith in our system, my rebuttal is the civil rights stand of Congressman William McCulloch." Book jacket.