Burying Sergeant Rice: racial justice and Native American rights in the Truman era
Article Abstract:
President Harry S. Truman's response to the restrictions on the burial of Sergeant First Class John Raymond Rice, an eleven-year veteran of the United States Army killed in Korean War, by the cemetery officials on 28 August 1951 as he was a Caucasian, which had captured national headlines in 1951 was an example of symbolic leadership on behalf of civil rights. With this incident, Americans identified with what had happened to Rice and called for an end to racial discrimination against all racial groups, including Indians.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2004
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Burying Sergeant Rice: racial justice and Native American rights in the Truman era
Article Abstract:
President Harry S. Truman's response to the restrictions on the burial of Sergeant First Class John Raymond Rice, an eleven-year veteran of the United States Army killed in Korean War, by the cemetery officials on 28 August 1951 as he was a Caucasian, which had captured national headlines in 1951 was an example of symbolic leadership on behalf of civil rights. With this incident, Americans identified with what had happened to Rice and called for an end to racial discrimination against all racial groups, including Indians.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2004
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Conversing with the dead: The militia movement and American history
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A brief review on the militia movement's engagement with America's past with reference to the use, misuse, and mythology of the United States is presented. One of the results of this approach is the militia movement's often simplistic comparison between conditions as they are at the present and those that were supposed to be in the past.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2004
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