Civil Rights Under Reagan 1558151117

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

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English Pages 264 Year 1991

Civil Rights Under Reagan
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Robert R. Detlefsen

Table of contents :
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

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