Title Resolving racial conflict : the Community Relations Service and civil rights, 1964-1989 / Bertram Levine

Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) Contents Lyndon Johnson sets the stage -- Learning intervention : intuition, courage, and goodwill -- Selma blow by blow : a dissection of the community crisis that turned the tide for voting rights -- Equality of results : the revised civil rights agenda -- When cities erupt -- Police-minority relations : a lightning rod for racial conflagration -- Education amid turmoil -- Mediation : the road less traveled -- Not all black and white : varieties of civil rights conflict -- Minorities and the media : the conversion of the image builders -- The quest for value Summary "In 1964, when the Civil Rights Act was passed, Congress wisely created an agency based in the U.S. Department of Justice to help forestall or resolve racial or ethnic disputes evolving from the act. Mandated by law and by its own methodology to shun publicity, the Community Relations Service developed self-effacement to a fine art. Thus the accomplishments, as well as the shortcomings, of this federal venture into conflict resolution are barely known in official Washington, and even less so by the American public. This first written history of the Community Relations Service uses the experiences of the men and women who sought to resolve the most volatile issues of the day to tell the story of this unfamiliar agency."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index Notes 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 English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject United States. Community Relations Service -- History United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964. SUBJECT United States. Community Relations Service fast Civil Rights Act of 1964 (United States) fast Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century Discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. African Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights Discrimination Ethnic relations Race discrimination Race relations Grundrecht Rassendiskriminierung SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043 Subject United States Schwärze USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2004022372 ISBN 0826215580 9780826215581 0826264247 9780826264244

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