Civil Rights Under Reagan

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Explores the Reagan Administration's attempts to transform civil rights law and how this was opposed by the established civil rights leadership

Author(s): Robert R. Detlefsen
Publisher: Institute for Contemporary Studies
Year: 1991

Language: English
Pages: 264
City: San Francisco, California
Tags: Afro-Americans—Civil Rights, Afro-Americans—Social Conditions—1975, Civil Rights—Government Policy—United States, United States—Politics and Government—1981-1989, Ronald Reagan

Foreword - ix
Acknowledgements - xi
Chapter 1: Introduction - 1
Chapter 2: Civil Rights Doctrine from 1965 to 1980: A Critical History — 15
Chapter 3: Employment Discrimination, the Courts, and the Reagan Justice Department — 59
Chapter 4: Race and the Schools — 105
Chapter 5: The Failure of Civil Rights Reform — 133
Chapter 6: The Civil Rights Ideology in Our Time — 165
Chapter 7: Epilogue: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights in the Post-Reagan Era — 189
Notes — 213
Index — 229