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1 online resource (x, 404 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 rights in America. Nixon's policymaking recast the civil rights debate from an argument over racial integration to an effort to improve the economic station of disadvantaged groups. Kotlowski examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, affirmative action, and minority businesses as well as Native American and women's rights. He details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric and who constantly weighed political expediency and principles in crafting civil rights policy. In moving the debate from the street to the system, Nixon set civil rights on a path whose merits and results are still debated. Nixon's Civil Rights is a revealing portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures of modern American politics and a major contribution to the study of civil rights in America |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Indiana University) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-388) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Affirmative action programs -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Affirmative action programs -- Government policy
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Civil rights
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Politics and government
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140471
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674039735 |
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0674039734 |
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