Search Results - "Rights"

A quiet victory for Latino rights FDR and the controversy over "whiteness" / by Lukens, Patrick D., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Nativists and immigration law to 1924 -- Mexican restriction debates, 1924-30 -- Good neighbors and new dealers -- Mexicans, Mexican Americans and civil rights -- The Andrade Decision -- Efforts to thwart the Andrade Decision using the traditional approach -- Applying administrative law to the Andrade Decision -- The racial classification policy : problems and successes -- Consequences, unintended consequences and failures.…”
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Black culture and the New Deal the quest for civil rights in the Roosevelt era / by Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca

Subjects: “…African Americans Civil rights History 20th century.…”
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The Dixiecrat revolt and the end of the solid South, 1932-1968 by Frederickson, Kari A.

Subjects: “…States' Rights Democratic Party History.…”
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Reconsidering Roosevelt on race how the presidency paved the road to Brown / by McMahon, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…The day they drove old Dixie down -- The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years -- FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform -- Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties--almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court -- A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department -- The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions -- The road the court trod.…”
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