The
Autumn 2004 JOURNAL of the Jackson County Historical Society features A
Fair Deal for All Americans: President Harry Truman and Civil Rights in the
Election of 1948 contributed by Kevin M. Fields
The Jackson County Historical
Society’s extensive work on the Veterans History Project (a collaborative effort
with Americans Remembered, Inc. and the Library of Congress) has produced
nearly 600 oral history interviews to date. These are first-hand accounts
from members of our Greatest Generation who are remembering—and recording for
posterity—events that occurred 60 years ago during World War II, Korean, and
more recently in the Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Wars. Kevin M. Field’s
feature article, A Fair Deal for All Americans: President Harry Truman and
Civil Rights in the Election of 1948, ties in with this them. It is also
timely as our own historic presidential election of 2004 approaches, complete
with its own set of civil liberty issues. A native of Salisbury, Maryland, Kevin M. Fields graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in History and Political Science from Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland. He earned a M.A. with honors in early national and antebellum American history at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. Fields’ graduate assistantship resulted in his published thesis, “Selected Early and Modern Historiographical Trends and Interpretations of President Abraham Lincoln’s Reputation and Morality on the Slavery Question.� He serves as adjunct professor of American history and World Civilizations at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, Maryland and at Wor-Wic Community College in Salisbury, Maryland. He has accepted a position as guest instructor of antebellum and Civil War studies at Wesley College, Dover, Delaware. Websites offering more information: Character
Above All PBS Special on Harry Truman Truman’s
Desegregation of the Armed Forces Library of
Congress: The Civil Rights Era (American Memory) To order this JOURNAL edition, subscribe or join JCHS click
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