The presidency and the politics of racial inequality : nation-keeping from 1831 to 1965
Focusing on the most explosive and enduring of equality movements--the struggle for social and economic parity by African Americans--Riley argues that the president's unwritten mandate as the designated protector of domestic social order is to suppress or moderate major social change. Only in extreme circumstances have presidents become advocates of serious reform.
History
xiv, 373 pages ; 24 cm.
9780231107228, 9780231107235, 0231107226, 0231107234
39695863
Introduction Part One: Abolition Chapter 1. The Origins and Politics of Abolition Chapter 2. A Thirty Years "War": The Presidency and the Abolitionists Chapter 3. The Making of a Great Emancipator Part Two: Civil Rights Chapter 4. From Reconstruction to the Great Depression: Latency Years Chapter 5. The Rise of Black Political Power: Roosevelt and Truman Chapter 6. Race Returns to Center Stage: The Eisenhower Years Chapter 7. Emancipation Act II: Pressures and Conversion 1961--1965 Chapter 8. The Presidency Leadership, and Racial Equality: An Overview