TY - BOOK AU - KOTLOWSKI,Dean J TI - Nixon’s Civil Rights SN - 9780674039735 AV - JC599.U5 -- K65 2001eb U1 - 323.73 PY - 2021///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039735 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039735 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674039735.jpg ER -