Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration
Author | : James C. Harvey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James C. Harvey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : James P. Marshall |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2018-04-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0807168769 |
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 | : John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
"There is no way of determining with precision how much the Kennedy administration contributed to the creation of this social movement, but there can be little doubt that it played an important role in its birth and development. By word and deed, through rhetoric and substantive action, President Kennedy helped bring about what was sometimes called a revolution of rising expectations. He never urged people to take to the streets--indeed he was politically discomfited by their doing so--but he fostered an atmosphere where protests against the status quo could and did occur. In fact, the Kennedy administration and the Civil Rights Movement had a symbiotic relationship, with each encouraging the other to take the next step, until a social movement came into being and President Kennedy responded in turn to that movement by proposing the most comprehensive civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. He thereby initiated what could reasonably be called the Second Reconstruction."--Vendor website.
Author | : Carl M. Brauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : 9780890933640 |
Author | : Andrew Hoberek |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2015-04-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107048109 |
The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy explores the creation, and afterlife, of an American icon.
Author | : Donald Francis Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Nick Bryant |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780465008278 |
In this, the first comprehensive history of Kennedy's civil rights record over the course of his entire political career, Nick Bryant shows that Kennedy's shrewd handling of the race issue in his early congressional campaigns blinded him as President to the intractability of the simmering racial crisis in America. By focusing on mainly symbolic gestures, Kennedy missed crucial opportunities to confront the obstructionist Southern bloc and to enact genuine reform, his inertia emboldening white supremacists and forced black activists to adopt increasingly militant tactics.
Author | : Harold C. Fleming |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0820336238 |
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 | : Carl M. Brauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
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Author | : Donald C. Lord |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An account of the life and times of John F. Kennedy stressing his political career and including chapters on image-making and the verdict of history.