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Nixon’s Civil Rights / Dean J KOTLOWSKI.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674039735
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.73
LOC classification:
  • JC599.U5 -- K65 2001eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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