[PDF] Civil Rights Under Reagan eBook

Author : Norman C. Amaker
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780877664512

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Author : Robert R. Detlefsen
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :

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"Civil Rights Under Reagan'" is a masterful look at race relations and policy in America. Polls on racial attitudes show that the vast majority of Americans - including black Americans - believe our system should be color-blind. This fascinating book documents the Reagan administration's attempt - and failure - to abolish race-sensitive civil rights policies. Reagan's campaign against affirmative action was bitterly opposed by the civil rights community. "Civil Right Under Reagan" argues that the body of civil rights law "legislated" by judges and supported by an elite group of academics, lawyers, and journalists proved remarkably resistant to change through the democratic process. The Reagan administration's only real success came after it left office, when its Supreme Court appointees led the way in scaling back the scope of affirmative action - an ironic postscript for a president who railed against legislating through the courts.

Author : Raymond Wolters
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781412833332

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Raymond Wolters maintains that Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds made the "right turn" when they questioned and limited the use of racial considerations in drawing electoral boundaries. He also documents the Reagan administration's considerable success in reinforcing within the country, and reviving within the judiciary, the conviction that every person - black or white - should be considered an individual with unique talents and inalienable rights. This book begins with a biographical chapter on William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General who was the principal architect of Reagan's civil rights policies. It then analyzes three main civil rights issues: voting rights, affirmative action, and school desegregation. Wolters describes specific cases: at-large elections and minority vote dilutions; congressional districting in New Orleans; legislative districting in North Carolina; the debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1964; social science critiques of affirmative action; the question of quotas; and school desegregation and forced busing. Because Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds were men of the right, and because most journalists and historians are on the left, Wolters feels the "people of words" have dealt harshly with the Reagan administration. In writing this book, he hopes to correct the record on a subject that has been badly represented.

Author : Raymond Wolters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351292420

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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 discrimination to give blacks a special boost. In business and government this could be accomplished through racial preferences or quotas; in public education, by considering race when assigning students to schools. By 1980 this course reached a crossroads. Raymond Wolters maintains that Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds made the "right turn" when they questioned and limited the use of racial considerations in drawing electoral boundaries. He also documents the Reagan administration's considerable success in reinforcing within the country, and reviving within the judiciary, the conviction that every person black or white should be considered an individual with unique talents and inalienable rights. This book begins with a biographical chapter on William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General who was the principal architect of Reagan's civil rights policies. It then analyzes three main civil rights issues: voting rights, affirmative action, and school desegregation. Wolters describes specific cases: at-large elections and minority vote dilutions; congressional districting in New Orleans; legislative districting in North Carolina; the debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1964; social science critiques of affirmative action; the question of quotas; and school desegregation and forced busing. Because Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds were men of the right, and because most journalists and historians are on the left, Wolters feels the "people of words" have dealt harshly with the Reagan administration. In writing this book, he hopes to correct the record on a subject that has been badly represented. Wolters points out that, beginning in the 1980s and continuing in the 1990s, the Supreme Court endorsed the legal arguments that Reagan's lawyers developed in the fields of voting rights, affirmative action, and school desegregation. In Right Turn, Wolters responds to those who claimed that Reagan and Reynolds were racists who wanted to turn back the clock on civil rights, and he describes civil rights cases and controversies in a way that is comprehensible to general readers as well as to lawyers and historians.

Author : Steven A. Shull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351715054

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This title was first published in 1993.

Author : Congressional Quarterly, inc
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Reagan's First Year describes Ronald Reagan's first year in office. It was a year marked by legislative and personal triumphs. In addition to describing the president's economic program, the book provides an overview of Reagan's lobbying efforts in achieving his legislative victories. Other sections deal with the administration's defense and foreign policies, and its domestic agenda. The book also contains a chronology of Reagan's first year in office, major Reagan messages, new conference transcripts, executive branch nominations and congressional Quarterly's annual presidential support study.

Author : Michael K. Fauntroy
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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The Republican Party once enjoyed nearly unanimous support among African American voters; today, it can hardly maintain a foothold in the black community. Exploring how and why this shift occurred?as well as recent efforts to reverse it?Michael Fauntroy meticulously navigates the policy choices and political strategies that have driven a wedge between the GOP and its formerly stalwart constituents.

Author : Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :

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More than any of his recent predecessors, President Reagan has raised fundamental questions regarding the directions of the human rights policies pursued for the past twenty years. The ten original essays collected in this volume examine the influence of the Reagan Administration on the Justice Department, voting rights, gender discrimination, the ERA, education, housing discrimination, the pro-family agenda, affirmative action, the Civil Rights Commission, and international human rights policy. By bringing together information on many areas of human rights, the volume presents an important overall picture of the Reagan administration's impact on this vital policy field.

Author : Nicholas Laham
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Argues that Reagan's civil rights policy was determined by legitimate philosophical considerations, rather than crass political motivations.