Right Turn : William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights /
"In the spirit of the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 called for nondiscrimination for American citizens, seeking equality without regard for race, color, or creed. After the mid-1960s, to make amends for wrongs of the past, some people called for benign dis...
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2017
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter Introduction
- part I Voting Rights
- chapter Introduction to Part I
- chapter 1 Preclearance
- chapter 2 At-Large Elections, Minority Vote Dilution, and The Results Test
- chapter 3 The Debate Over the Revised Section 2
- chapter 4 Six Cases: Mississippi, New York City, Selma, Burke County, Montgomery, Greene County
- chapter 5 Congressional Districting in New Orleans
- chapter 6 Legislative Districting in North Carolina
- chapter 7 Conclusion to Part I
- part II Affirmative Action
- chapter Introduction to Part II
- chapter 8 The Civil Rights Act, 1964
- chapter 9 The Social Science Critique of Affirmative Action
- chapter 10 Charting a New Course: The Case of the New Orleans Police Department
- chapter 11 False Dawn
- chapter 12 The Nadir
- chapter 13 Endgame
- chapter 14 Conclusion to Part II
- part III School Desegregation
- chapter Introduction to Part III
- chapter 15 From Brown to Busing
- chapter 16 Coercion or Choice: The Forked Road to School Desegregation
- chapter 17 Breaking Away
- chapter 18 Shaping a New Policy
- chapter 19 Gold Plated Desegregation
- chapter 20 Light at the End of the Tunnel?
- chapter 21 Conclusion to Part III