Now abridged for courses, this edition of Hugh D. Graham's groundbreaking history of national policy during the battle for civil rights recreates the intense debates in Congress and the White House that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banning discrimination against minorities and women. Following the implementation of these policies through a thickening maze of federal agencies and court decisions, the text reveals how the classic liberal agenda of non-discrimination evolved into the controversial program of affirmative action, surprisingly enough, under Richard Nixon. Based on extensive, groundbreaking research in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidential archives and special collections of the Library of Congress, Civil Rights and the Presidency will be invaluable for courses in American history, political science, and black and women's studies.
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"Lots of ground-breaking information."--Julie Leininger Pycion, Manhattan College
"Graham has abridged his award winning book into a highly readable account of the role of the executive branch in civil rights policy from the sit-ins of 1960 through Nixon's first administration."--The Historian
"An extraordinarily well-written and fascinating account."--Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
"A powerful critique of government civil rights policy after 1965."--Florida Historical Quarterly (on the First Edition)
"An informative account of the crucial years in the struggle for racial minorities and women to gain more civil rights. There is much in it to stimulate class discussion."--Robert W. Langran, Villanova University
"I am pleased to see you come out with another abridgement of a significant (if lengthy) title."--William L. Van Deburg, University of Wisconsin
Praise for The Civil Rights Era:
"Should reacquaint a new generation with forgotten truths....Instructive, too, is Mr. Graham's assessment of presidential leadership"--The New York Times Book Review
"A rigorous, undiluted examination of the policies and programs effected by the federal government in pursuit of civil equality for all citizens....An impressive marshaling of evidence and interpretation....An excellent resource"--Booklist
"The first administrative history of the movement....A major milestone in the study of recent American life and politics"--Library Journal
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Hugh Davis Graham is at Vanderbilt University.
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When we compare the social conditions of blacks and women in the United States in 1960 we find a paradox. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
statistical trigger, biracial caste system, state protective laws, poll tax ban, triggering formula, new social regulation, omnibus civil rights bill, preclearance provision, leadership compromise, compensatory theory, civil rights coalition, civil rights regulation, compensatory remedies, proportional model, minority preferences, civil rights policy, reapportionment cases, sheetmetal workers, black ballots, social regulators, civil rights agencies, black disfranchisement, congressional conservatives, southern filibuster, judicial strategy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Philadelphia Plan, White House, New York, Voting Rights Act, Lyndon Johnson, Jim Crow, Women's Bureau, President Johnson, Robert Kennedy, United States, Duke Power, Martin Luther King, North Carolina, Warren Court, Richard Nixon, President Kennedy, New Deal, Leadership Conference, Great Society, Civil Rights Commission, Rules Committee, World War, Los Angeles, Southern Strategy, South Carolina New!
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When we compare the social conditions of blacks and women in the United States in 1960 we find a paradox. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
statistical trigger, biracial caste system, state protective laws, poll tax ban, triggering formula, new social regulation, omnibus civil rights bill, preclearance provision, leadership compromise, compensatory theory, civil rights coalition, civil rights regulation, compensatory remedies, proportional model, minority preferences, civil rights policy, reapportionment cases, sheetmetal workers, black ballots, social regulators, civil rights agencies, black disfranchisement, congressional conservatives, southern filibuster, judicial strategy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Philadelphia Plan, White House, New York, Voting Rights Act, Lyndon Johnson, Jim Crow, Women's Bureau, President Johnson, Robert Kennedy, United States, Duke Power, Martin Luther King, North Carolina, Warren Court, Richard Nixon, President Kennedy, New Deal, Leadership Conference, Great Society, Civil Rights Commission, Rules Committee, World War, Los Angeles, Southern Strategy, South Carolina New!
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- Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America by Hugh Davis Graham in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Flap
- Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought by Dean E. Robinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Morton Keller on page 187, and Back Matter
- Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Bruce J. Schulman on page 124, and Back Matter
- Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 by Brenda Gayle Plummer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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