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Format: Online-Ressource (416 p)

ISBN: 9780674006232

Content: Intro -- 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.

Note: Description based upon print version of record

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674039735

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674006232

Additional Edition: Print version Nixon's Civil Rights : Politics, Principle, and Policy

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

URL: Volltext

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Format: 1 online resource (416 p.)

ISBN: 9780674039735

Content: 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.

Note: 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 , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674039735

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039735

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039735

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Format: 1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-674-03973-4

Content: 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.

Note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Indiana University). , 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 , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-00623-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674039735