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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kotlowski, Dean J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.