Reconsidering Roosevelt on race : how the presidency paved the road to Brown /

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Many have questioned FDR's record on race, suggesting that he had the opportunity but not the will to advance the civil rights of African Americans. Kevin J. McMahon challenges this view, arguing instead that Roosevelt's administration played a crucial role in the Supreme Court's incr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McMahon, Kevin J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Temas:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945 > Relations with African Americans.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
United States. > Supreme Court > History > 20th century.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States. > Supreme Court
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Politics and government
Race relations > Political aspects
Relations with African Americans
Segregation in education > Law and legislation
Rassenpolitik
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect politique.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1933-1945.
United States
USA
Schwärze
Electronic books.
History
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  • The day they drove old Dixie down
  • The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years
  • FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform
  • Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties--almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court
  • A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department
  • The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions
  • The road the court trod.

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