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David A. NicholsPublication Details
Book1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edSimon & Schuster2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E836 .N53 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce a federal court order desegregating the city’s Central High School, a leading authority on Eisenhower presents an original and engrossing narrative that places Ike and his civil rights policies in dramatically new light. We witness Eisenhower crafting civil rights legislation, deftly building a congressional coalition that passed the first civil rights act in eighty-two years, and maneuvering to avoid a showdown with Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas, over desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High. Nichols demonstrates that Eisenhower, though he was a product of his time and its backward racial attitudes, was actually more progressive on civil rights in the 1950s than his predecessor, Harry Truman, and his successors, John F. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. — (Dwight David), — 1890-1969 — Political and social views
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. — (Dwight David), — 1890-1969. — Relations with African Americans
- African Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century
- Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century
- African Americans — Legal status, laws, etc. — History — 20th century
- Civil rights — United States — History — 20th century
- School integration — United States — History — 20th century
- Presidents — United States — Biography
- United States — Race relations — History — 20th century
- United States — Politics and government — 1953-1961
Contents
- The candidate
- Invoking federal authority
- The president and Brown
- A judiciary to enforce Brown
- The president and the chief justice
- Confronting southern resistance
- The Civil Rights Act of 1957
- The Little Rock crisis
- Military intervention in Little Rock
- Rising expectations
- The final act
- Leading from Gettysburg
- Conclusion: A matter of justice
ISBN
- 9781416541509
- 1416541500
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