Sharron Wilkins Conrad is professor of history at Tarrant County College and senior fellow at Southern Methodist Universitys Center for Presidential History.
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“A groundbreaking examination of Kennedy and Johnson through the eyes of African Americans, weaving grassroots voices, movement history, and media analysis into a vivid, multilayered narrative. Conrad’s archival brilliance and fresh theoretical insights open new avenues for understanding the politics, culture, and civil rights struggles of the 1960s.”—Charles W. McKinney Jr., author of Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina
“A superb, original, and urgently needed history that reshapes our understanding of the civil rights era and presidential leadership. Drawing on largely untapped sources and elevating voices too often unheard, Conrad offers a nuanced, deeply engaging account that will captivate both scholars and general readers.”—Ellen Fitzpatrick, author of The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency
“An enrapturing study that fuses history, memory, and material culture to reveal how African Americans have carried, contested, and reimagined the unfinished legacies of the civil rights struggle and why those memories still burn with urgency today.”—Torren L. Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University