03122nam 2200589Ia 450 991077844250332120200520144314.00-674-03973-410.4159/9780674039735(CKB)1000000000805442(OCoLC)449777794(CaPaEBR)ebrary10326105(SSID)ssj0000211471(PQKBManifestationID)11197054(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211471(PQKBWorkID)10311216(PQKB)10132093(Au-PeEL)EBL3300561(CaPaEBR)ebr10326105(OCoLC)923111833(DE-B1597)574459(DE-B1597)9780674039735(MiAaPQ)EBC3300561(EXLCZ)99100000000080544220010609d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNixon's civil rights[electronic resource] politics, principle, and policy /Dean J. KotlowskiCambridge, MA Harvard University Press20011 online resource (417 p.) Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Indiana University).0-674-00623-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-388) and index.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 -- IndexIn 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.Civil rightsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAffirmative action programsGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1969-1974Civil rightsHistoryAffirmative action programsGovernment policyHistory323/.0973/09047Kotlowski Dean J1044091MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778442503321Nixon's civil rights3745159UNINA