Bibliograph

The civil rights era, origins and development of national policy, 1960-1972, Hugh Davis Graham

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The civil rights era, origins and development of national policy, 1960-1972, Hugh Davis Graham

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-569)

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The civil rights era

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

20012496

Responsibility statement

Hugh Davis Graham

Sub title

origins and development of national policy, 1960-1972

Summary

A comprehensive history of the Civil rights era on the level of the Federal Government

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- pt. 1: Kennedy -- Kennedy, Johnson and the presidency in civil rights -- Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the politics of enforcement -- The Civil Rights Bill of 1963 -- The storm over racial quotas -- pt. 2: Johnson -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- From the Civil Rights Act to the Voting Rights Act: the Johnson White House at flood tide, 1964-1965 -- The troubled search for civil rights enforcement: launching the EEOC, 1965-1966 -- The EEOC and the politics of gender -- From equal treatment to equal results: transforming civil rights strategy -- From ghetto riots to open housing, 1966-1968 -- From Johnson to Nixon: the irony of the Philadelphia Plan -- pt. 3: Nixon -- Richard Nixon and civil rights policy: "no master spirit, no determined road" -- The Philadelphia Plan redux -- Nixon, Congress, and voting rights -- The "color-blind" Constitution and the federal courts -- Women, the Nixon administration, and the Equal Rights Amendment -- Race, sex, and civil rights enforcement: culmination 1972 -- Conclusions -- Essays on sources -- Notes -- Index

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