The Politics Of Injustice: The Kennedys, The Freedom Rides, And The ePub download

Niven explores how the Freedom Rides set a pattern for JFK's reaction to. .

Niven explores how the Freedom Rides set a pattern for JFK's reaction to the civil rights movement, and how the president tried to make a half-hearted stand for civil rights while shoring up his support among segregationist white southern Democrats. The Politics of Injustice clearly shows that, despite his liberal reputation, President Kennedy stood in the way of civil rights progress due to a political miscalculation. It is a critical book for understanding the early 1960s and the Kennedy administration, and for contemplating what might have been in those turbulent times.

The Politics of Injustice book. Niven contends that the Kennedy administration's position on civil rights marked a failure to recognize the depth of the connection voters made between Kennedy, the Democratic party, and the civil rights movement, as well as a failure to recognize the importance of the African American voting bloc in the long run.

The Politics of Injustice : The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise. When the Freedom Riders sought an end to segregation in 1961, they had little support from a supposedly liberal administration in Washington. In his efforts to hold a centrist position and with an eye toward re-election, President John F. Kennedy largely ignored and even tried to hamper the efforts of these civil rights activists.

Looking for the promise of America in a bus station : the freedom rides and the Kennedys, 1961. The solid South has cracked : the evolution of the Democratic Party's base. We thank Jack, Bob, and God" : the burgeoning connection between civil rights and the Kennedys. Good men do not go half way with evil" : the value of compromise on a moral issue. Passion and compromise : lessons then and now. Appendix : political enthusiasm of pro- and anti-civil rights "carers," 1960. Includes bibliographical references (p. -255) and index.

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The Politics Of Injustice: The Kennedys, The Freedom Rides, And The. by David Niven. ISBN 9781572332126 (978-1-57233-212-6) Hardcover, Univ Tennessee Press, 2003. Все результаты Поиска книг Google Об авторе (1996). He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times.

The 1961 Freedom Rides were public bus trips undertaken by racially integrated groups through the Deep South to test the . The Politics of Injustice: The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise.

The riders were met with hostility and violence in a number of states, and they encountered some of the worst violence in Alabama. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.

Niven, David Wofford, Harris. Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980.

The Politics of Injustice: The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise. Additional Information.

Niven, David Schmitt, Edward R. President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010) 324 pp. ISBN 978-1-55849-730-6. U. of Tennessee Press (2003). In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Columbia U. Press (2001). Schmitt, Edward R.