Civil Rights and the Presidency Race and Gender in American Politics, 1960-1972

by Graham, Hugh Davis

• ISBN13: 9780195066494
• ISBN10: 0195066499
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-02-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Now abridged for courses, Hugh D. Graham's groundbreaking history of national policy during the battle for civil rights re-creates 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. Unique in its discussion of both race and gender as the driving forces in the development of civil rights policy, the text follows the implementation of these policies through a thickening maze of federal agencies and court decisions, showing how the classic liberal agenda of non-discrimination evolved into the controversial program of affirmative action.

Table of Contents

America in 1960: Blacks and Women on the Eve of Social Revolution

The Kennedy Presidency and Black Civil Rights, 1960-1962

The Segregated Civil Rights Bills of 1963 for Women and Blacks

Lyndon Johnson and The Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Watershed of 1965: From the Voting Rights Act to ""Black Power""

The EEOC and the Politics of Gender

Race, Affirmative Action, and Open Housing, 1965-1968

The Nixon Presidency: Domestic Policy and Divided Government

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