Nixon’s Civil Rights /
KOTLOWSKI, Dean J
Nixon’s Civil Rights / Dean J KOTLOWSKI. - 1 online resource (416 p.)
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 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 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
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In a groundbreaking new book, Kotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. Kotlowski examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, affirmative action, and minority businesses as well as Native American and women's rights. He details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric and who constantly weighed political expediency and principles in crafting civil rights policy.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674039735
10.4159/9780674039735 doi
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
JC599.U5 -- K65 2001eb
323.73
Nixon’s Civil Rights / Dean J KOTLOWSKI. - 1 online resource (416 p.)
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 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 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In a groundbreaking new book, Kotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. Kotlowski examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, affirmative action, and minority businesses as well as Native American and women's rights. He details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric and who constantly weighed political expediency and principles in crafting civil rights policy.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674039735
10.4159/9780674039735 doi
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
JC599.U5 -- K65 2001eb
323.73