Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor Leroy Collins (Florida History and Culture)
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Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor Leroy Collins (Florida History and Culture)
EN USISBN: 0813029694 bzw. 9780813029696, in Englisch, University Press of Florida, gebraucht.
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americas,biographies,historical,history,state and local, Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins (Florida History and Culture), In this portrait of a man the Florida House of Representatives eulogized as the "Floridian of the Twentieth Century," Dyckman argues that the courageous moral leadership of LeRoy Collins not only spared Florida the humiliation that befell other southern states under less enlightened leaders but also was responsible for modernizing all the branches of the state government. Collins was elected governor as a segregationist but recognized in office that he could not reconcile segregation with his religious faith or his sworn duty to represent all the citizens of Florida. He announced that racial discrimination was contrary to "moral, simple justice."��� Collins won the two most important elections for governor in his state's history-as the champion of urban Florida against rural misrule in the special election of 1954 and as the voice of racial moderation in 1956, when his home-state rivals and many Southern peers were preaching defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation decisions. Collins fought what he thought were losing battles for a modern constitution and fair apportionment of the state legislature but saw these succeed not long after he had left office largely because of his efforts. As president of the National Association of Broadcasters, Collins shocked his employers by denouncing tobacco advertising aimed at children. Chosen by President Lyndon Johnson to direct a conciliation service created by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Collins arranged A.
americas,biographies,historical,history,state and local, Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins (Florida History and Culture), In this portrait of a man the Florida House of Representatives eulogized as the "Floridian of the Twentieth Century," Dyckman argues that the courageous moral leadership of LeRoy Collins not only spared Florida the humiliation that befell other southern states under less enlightened leaders but also was responsible for modernizing all the branches of the state government. Collins was elected governor as a segregationist but recognized in office that he could not reconcile segregation with his religious faith or his sworn duty to represent all the citizens of Florida. He announced that racial discrimination was contrary to "moral, simple justice."��� Collins won the two most important elections for governor in his state's history-as the champion of urban Florida against rural misrule in the special election of 1954 and as the voice of racial moderation in 1956, when his home-state rivals and many Southern peers were preaching defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation decisions. Collins fought what he thought were losing battles for a modern constitution and fair apportionment of the state legislature but saw these succeed not long after he had left office largely because of his efforts. As president of the National Association of Broadcasters, Collins shocked his employers by denouncing tobacco advertising aimed at children. Chosen by President Lyndon Johnson to direct a conciliation service created by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Collins arranged A.
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Floridian of His Century
EN HC USISBN: 9780813029696 bzw. 0813029694, in Englisch, University Press of Florida, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
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Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins
EN HC NWISBN: 9780813029696 bzw. 0813029694, in Englisch, University Press of Florida, gebundenes Buch, neu.
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Floridian-of-His-Century~~Martin-A-Dyckman, Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins, Hardcover.
Floridian-of-His-Century~~Martin-A-Dyckman, Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins, Hardcover.
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