Nixon's civil rights : politics, principle, and policy

Nixon's civil rights : politics, principle, and policy / Dean J. Kotlowski.

Richard Nixon believed that history would show his administration in the forefront of civil rights progress. What does the record really say about civil rights under Nixon? In a groundbreaking new book, Dean Kotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kotlowski, Dean J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Civil rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Affirmative action programs > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Affirmative action programs > Government policy
Civil rights
Politics and government
Burgerrechten.
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United States > Politics and government > 1969-1974.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Deeds versus Words
  • 1. Flexible Response: Southern Politics and School Desegregation
  • 2. Open Communities versus Forced Integration: Romney, Nixon, and Fair Housing
  • 3. The Art of Compromise: Extending the Voting Rights Act
  • 4. Jobs Are Nixon's Rights Program: The Philadelphia Plan and Affirmative Action
  • 5. Black Power, Nixon Style: Minority Businesses and Black Colleges
  • 6. A Cold War: Nixon and Civil Rights Leaders
  • 7. Challenges and Opportunities: Native American Policy
  • 8. Stops and Starts: Women's Rights
  • Epilogue: In the Shadow of Nixon.

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