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Author : Paul W. Ruppert
Release : 1997
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Book Synopsis The Evolution of Civil Rights Policy in the Kennedy Administration by : Paul W. Ruppert
Download or read book The Evolution of Civil Rights Policy in the Kennedy Administration written by Paul W. Ruppert. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James C. Harvey
Release : 1971
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration by : James C. Harvey
Download or read book Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration written by James C. Harvey. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James P. Marshall
Release : 2018-04-07
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964 by : James P. Marshall
Download or read book The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964 written by James P. Marshall. This book was released on 2018-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, civil rights activists and the Kennedy administration engaged in parallel, though not always complementary, efforts to overcome Mississippi’s extreme opposition to racial desegregation. In The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960–1964, James P. Marshall uncovers this history through primary source documents that explore the legal and political strategies of the federal government, follows the administration’s changing and sometimes contentious relationship with civil rights organizations, and reveals the tactics used by local and state entities in Mississippi to stem the advancement of racial equality. A historian and longtime civil rights activist, Marshall collects a vast array of documents from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and excerpts from his own 1960s interviews with leading figures in the movement for racial justice. This volume tracks early forms of resistance to racial parity adopted by the White Citizens’ Councils and chapters of the Ku Klux Klan at the local level as well as by Mississippi congressmen and other elected officials who used both legal obstructionism and extra-legal actions to block efforts meant to promote integration. Quoting from interviews and correspondence among the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee members, government officials, and other constituents of the Democratic Party, Marshall also explores decisions about voter registration drives and freedom rides as well as formal efforts by the Kennedy administration—including everything from minority hiring initiatives to federal litigation and party platform changes—to exert pressure on Mississippi to end segregation. Through a carefully curated selection of letters, interviews, government records, and legal documents, The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960–1964 sheds new light on the struggle to advance racial justice for African Americans living in the Magnolia State.
Author : Harold C. Fleming
Release : 2010
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Potomac Chronicle by : Harold C. Fleming
Download or read book The Potomac Chronicle written by Harold C. Fleming. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Kennedy administration through the end of the Reagan era, the Potomac Institute gave vital, behind-the-scenes support to countless public-and-private-sector initiatives related to equal opportunity, urban social problems, and race relations. Part history and part memoir of Harold C. Fleming, the institute's leader, The Potomac Chronicle tells for the first time how the institute served as a creative broker of talent, ideas, and resources among minorities, activists, and interest groups. Owing to Fleming's dedication, coolheadedness, and low-key approach, no other such organization was as well linked to—and as trusted by—both government policymakers and southern civil rights leaders. In the context of major national trends and events, The Potomac Chronicle tells of the institute's role in the Kennedy administration's civil rights policy debates, in helping the Defense Department set up what would become model guidelines for civil rights compliance by federal contractors, and in informing, educating, and reassuring Americans about Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act. Other accomplishments discussed include the institute's involvement in forming the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, tying civil rights requirements to government programs and private practices in education, housing, and employment, and, in the years before it closed in 1988, helping defend affirmative action.
Author : Todd E. Saucedo
Release : 2007
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Book Synopsis The Fire Within by : Todd E. Saucedo
Download or read book The Fire Within written by Todd E. Saucedo. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the Kennedy Administration's decision to propose comprehensive civil rights legislation in June, 1963. The work focuses on the relationship between the Kennedy brothers, particularly on Robert F. Kennedy's position as his brother's main adviser and his influence on the president's final decision to go forward with legislation. It begins by exploring the Kennedy's childhood, then traces the brothers' approach toward civil rights during the campaigns of 1952 and 1960, and concludes with an assessment of the Kennedy administration's civil rights policy during his presidency. The thesis puts special emphasis on a May, 1963 meeting between Robert Kennedy and an eclectic bi-racial group of intellectuals led by the novelist James Baldwin arguing that the meeting profoundly altered Kennedy's understanding of civil rights, ultimately transforming the Kennedy legacy regarding civil rights.
