Republicans and Race: The GOP's Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945-1974

Thurber, Timothy N.

Republicans and Race: The GOP's Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945-1974

Timothy N. Thurber

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No segment of the American electorate is more reliably Democratic than African Americans. The GOP, meanwhile, remains nearly an all-white party. In this path-breaking book, historian Timothy Thurber illuminates the deep roots of this gulf by exploring the contentious, and sometimes surprising, relationship between African Americans and the Republican Party from the end of World War II through Richard Nixons presidency. The GOP, he shows, shaped the modern civil rights movement, but the struggle for racial equality also transformed the GOP.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Fair Employment Practices Commission, Voting Rights, and Racial Violence
Chapter 2. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Reform of the Federal Government
Chapter 3. “At Sea on This”: Eisenhower and Black Protest
Chapter 4. Republicans and Civil Rights Legislation, 1952–1960
Chapter 5. The GOP, Direct Action, and Racial Policy, 1960–1963
Chapter 6. The 1964 Civil Rights Act
Chapter 7. Race and Republican Politics, 1961–1964
Chapter 8. Civil Rights Policy, 1965–1968
Chapter 9. The Nixon Synthesis
Chapter 10. Schools, Voting Rights, and the Supreme Court, 1969–1970
Chapter 11. Integration Revisited
Chapter 12. Economic Policy: Nixon’s First Term
Chapter 13. A New Republican Majority?
Chapter 14. Denouement: The GOP and Race, 1973–1974
Epilogue
Notes
Index

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Published: 2013

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

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978-0-7006-1938-2 (hardcover)

Republicans and Race: The GOP's Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945-1974

Overview

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