Leon Howell is author of Freedom City: The Substance of Things Hoped For, about the National Council of Churches' civil rights engagement with Mississippi.
Articles by Leon Howell
Books
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. “were unlikely partners, the master politician who became president and the eloquent minister who led a revolution,” Nick Kotz begins his superbly told story.
Jessica Lynch resists America’s desire to call her a war hero. “They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff,” Lynch told Diane Sawyer during a television interview on Veteran’s Day. “It’s wrong.”
Six years after Bill Clinton signed into law a controversial bill ending “welfare as we know it,” Congress is debating how to extend or revise the welfare program. Funding guidelines must be reauthorized by October 1.
