We Shall Overcome The Politics of Civil Rights, May 1963 to August 1964

ISBN-13: 9783639107630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 516 str.

David McKinstry

Opis

This is a study of the civil rights policies of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.It examines the period from May 1963 to August 1964, which witnessed radical changes in presidential policy agendas on civil rights. By the summer of 1964 with the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and the Economic Opportunity Act, the Johnson administration had responded to African-American demands that the federal government pass wide- ranging legislation to address both constitutional and socio-economic inequality.This book highlights the importance of long-term national developments, which witnessed the established civil rights organisations, in particular the NAACP, becoming integral partners in the national New Deal coalition before the advent of the mass civil rights movement of the early 1960s. Civil rights organisations viewed the constitutional and socio-economic civil rights agendas as being inseparable during 1963 and 1964. Moreover, these organisations were able to exert their power as a key constituency within the New Deal coalition to persuade the Johnson administration to accede immediately to their demands for civil rights laws.

O autorze

Dr David McKinstry teaches History in the Humanities Department
of Port Glasgow High School, Scotland. He read History at
Glasgow University and recieved his Phd from
Strathclyde University. He has taught History in
Secondary and Higher Education for the past twenty years and is
currently writing a biography on Lyndon Johnson.