Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights

by Raymond Wolters and Herbert Marcuse

In the spirit of the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 called for nondiscrimination for American citizens, seeking equality without regard for race, color, or creed. After the mid-1960s, to make amends for wrongs of the past, some people called for benign discrimination to give blacks a special boost. In business and government this could be accomplished through racial preferences or quotas; in public education,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138514225
• ISBN13: 9781138514225
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"