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Teen 342.73085 C499
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index.
Contents:
- I: Politicians debate the Civil Rights Act
- 1. Congress must act to protect civil rights / John F. Kennedy
- 2. Debate in the senate chamber / Hubert H. Humphrey and Russell Long
- 3. A threat to our system of government / Barry Goldwater
- 4. Morality dictates that the bill be passed / Everett Dirksen
- II: The American people debate the Civil Rights Act
- 1. The bill will end discrimination in public accommodations / Roy Wilkins
- 2. Kennedy's civil rights proposal is not strong enough / John Lewis
- 3. Support for the civil rights law is a religious obligation / Eugene Carson Blake
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- 4. The Civil Rights Act is the result of mass protest / Martin Luther King Jr.
- 5. The legislation takes away basic rights / Eugene Butler
- 6. George Wallace's criticisms of the bill are wrong / James E. Clayton and Robert E.L. Baker
- III: Assessing the act's passage and legacy
- 1. The act's immediate success / Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
- 2. Who were the heroes? What was the impact? / Robert D. Loevy
- 3. The Birmingham protests pushed President Kennedy to act on civil rights / Adam Fairclough
- 4. Affirmative action violates the Civil Rights Act / Allan C. Brownfeld
- 5. Affirmative action: in the tradition of the Civil Rights Act / Nicholas Lemann.
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