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Resolving racial conflict : the Community Relations Service and civil rights, 1964-1989 /
"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 d...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0826215580 9780826215581 0826264247 9780826264244 |