The Potomac chronicle : public policy & civil rights from Kennedy to Reagan / Harold C. Fleming with Virginia Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, Harold C.

Contributor:

Fleming, Virginia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Potomac Institute (Washington, D.C.)--History.

Potomac Institute (Washington, D.C.).

African Americans--Civil rights--Societies, etc--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Race relations.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights--Societies, etc.

African Americans--Civil rights.

United States--Race relations--Societies, etc--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 285 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [1996]

Summary:

For the Kennedy administration through the end of the Reagan era, the Potomac Institute gave vital, behind-the-scenes support to countless public- and private-sector initiatives related to equal opportunity, urban social problems, and race relations. Part history and part memoir of the institute's leader, Harold C. Fleming, The Potomac Chronicle tells for the first time how the institute served as a creative broker of talent, ideas, and resources among minorities, activists, and interest groups. Owing to Fleming's dedication, coolheadedness, and low-key approach, no other such organization was as well linked to - and as trusted by - both government policymakers and southern civil rights leaders.

Contents:

Introduction / John Egerton

1. The Birth of a Notion

2. Through a Political Lens

3. The Wild Blue Yonder

4. Stormy Weather

5. The Smallest Gravy Train in Town

6. The Art of the Infeasible

7. That Dear Old Slum

8. King and the "Cries for Equality"

9. Marching and Mourning

10. The Compliance Underground

11. The Way of the Peacemakers

12. Yesterday's Sunshine

13. The Snows of Yesteryear

14. Of Prudence and Pusillanimity

15. Visions of Urban America

16. Darkness at Noon

A Curtain Falls: Loss and Change

17. Consolidating the Gains

18. Slouching toward a Divided Society

19. Riding Herd on Federal Retrenchment on Civil Rights

20. Beyond Federal Programs

21. Swimming in the Mainstream

22. Suffer the Little Children

23. Power to the People Who Got There First

24. Can Justice Be Color Blind?

25. To Everything There Is a Season

App. A. Potomac Institute Board of Directors, Staff, and Fellows.

App. B. Potomac Institute Publications and Projects

App. C. Selected Articles and Speeches by Harold C. Fleming, 1961-1986.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0820318361

OCLC:

33946991