Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American Politics, 1960-1972

by Hugh Davis Graham

Book Overview

Now abridged for courses, this edition of Hugh D. Graham's groundbreaking history of national policy during the battle for civil rights recreates the intense debates in Congress and the White House that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banning discrimination against minorities and women. Following the implementation of these policies through a thickening maze of federal agencies and court decisions, the text reveals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073223
• ISBN13: 9780195073225
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"