The presidency and the politics of racial inequality : nation-keeping from 1831 to 1965 / Russell L. Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Russell L. (Russell Lowell), 1911-

Series:

Power, conflict, and democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Racial attitudes.

Presidents.

United States.

Presidents--Racial attitudes.

Political leadership--United States--History.

Political leadership.

History.

Racism--Political aspects--United States--History.

Racism.

Racism--Political aspects.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

United States--Politics and government--19th century.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 373 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1999]

Summary:

Focusing on the most explosive and enduring of equality movements--the struggle for social and economic parity by African Americans--Riley argues that the president's unwritten mandate as the designated protector of domestic social order is to suppress or moderate major social change. Only in extreme circumstances have presidents become advocates of serious reform.

Contents:

Part I Abolition 23

1. The Origins and Politics of Abolition 25

2. A Thirty Years "War": The Presidency and the Abolitionists 43

3. The Making of a Great Emancipator 93

Part II Civil Rights 119

4. From Reconstruction to the Great Depression: Latency Years 121

5. The Rise of Black Political Power: Roosevelt and Truman 137

6. Race Returns to Center Stage: The Eisenhower Years 175

7. Emancipation, Act II: Pressures and Conversion, 1961-1965 201

8. The Presidency, Leadership, and the Struggle for Racial Equality 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-357) and index.

ISBN:

0231107226

0231107234

OCLC:

39695863