Civil rights and the presidency
Subtitle: race and gender in American politics, 1960-1972
By: Hugh Davis Graham.
Contributors: Graham, Hugh Davis.
Edition: Abridged ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780195073225; 9780195066494
Subjects: Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Affirmative action programs -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-273) and index.
"This book is an abridgement of The Civil Rights Era : Origins and Development of National Policy, c1990 by Hugh Davis Graham." - T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: American in 1960 : Blacks and women on the eve of social revolution; title: The Kennedy presidency and Black civil rights, 1960-1962; title: The separate civil rights bills of 1963 for women and Blacks; title: Lyndon Johnson and the the Civil Rights Act of 1964; title: The watershed of 1965 : from the Voting Rights Act to "Black power"; title: The EEOC and the politics of gender; title: Race, affirmative action, and open housing, 1965-1968; title: The Nixon presidency : domestic policy and divided government; title: The Philadelphia plan and the politics of minority preference; title: The "color-blind" Constitution and the federal courts; title: Women, the Nixon administration, and the Equal Rights Amendment; title: The consolidation of 1972; title: The rights revolution and the American administrative state; title: Further reading; title: Glossary of organizations