The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas William S. Clayson ... The tax base in the state remained low, so Texans gained far more from New Deal programs than they sent to the Internal Revenue Service.34 Many ...
Beeth, Howard, and Cary Wintz, eds. Black Dixie: Afro Texan History and Culture in Houston. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992. Beinart, Peter. “The Rehabilitation of the Cold War Liberal.” New York Times Magazine, ...
That public appeal , dubbed the Hoffman letter after its author , AJC president Philip Hoffman , stood as the centerpiece of a mobilization that targeted hiring and admissions in higher education but affected all government affirmative ...
Melinda Hernandez quoted in Susan Eisenberg, We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working in Construction (Ithaca, N.Y., 1998), 26–28. The title of this chapter comes from the poem “Pioneering (for the Tradeswomen of ...
The history of one of the great missed opportunities in American history, Freedom Is Not Enough will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand our nation's ongoing failure to address the tragedy of the black underclass.
See Bill Nichols and Jessica Lee , " Dems Try Last - minute Push to Boost Black Votes , " USA TODAY , November 2 , 1998 , 9A . 52. MSNBC Staff and Wire Reports , " Black Vote Key in Democratic Wins , " www.msnbc.com ( accessed November ...
The history of one of the great missed opportunities in American history, Freedom Is Not Enough will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand our nation's ongoing failure to address the tragedy of the black underclass.
Presents the release and reception of Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" then and in the forty-five years since.
In Freedom Is Not Enough (a quote from Lyndon Johnson's 1965 commencement address to Howard University just before signing the Voting Rights Act), Ron Walters traces the history of the Black vote since 1965, celebrates its fortieth ...
In Freedom is Not Enough, award-winning historian James Patterson narrates the birth, life, and afterlife of the explosive Moynihan report, which altered the way we view race in America.
In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the...