Origins of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Authors
Nesburg, Alan Donald
Issue Date
1969
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Thesis
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en_US
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The goal was to view the society and its members'
general conception of the civil rights issue, as well as the specific
demands being presented by those groups actively engaged in promoting the
cause of racial equality. The extended confrontation between rising
Negro hopes and continued Southern resistance to the integration principle
led to a racial crisis in the summer of 1963, and thereafter to the
formation of consensual support for civil rights legislation by the
federal government.
The main portion of this paper follows a roughly chronological outline. The first chapter is devoted to a consideration of the civil
rights activities in the years under the Eisenhower Administration; the
second, with the first two Kennedy years; the third, with the national
civil rights crisis that emerged during the spring and summer of 1963
and was the immediate impetus for civil rights legislation; and the
fourth and fifth chapters deal with the passage of the Kennedy-Johnson
Administration's civil rights bill by the House and Senate, respectively.
The final chapter is devoted to an attempt at structuring the material
accumulated in the first five chapters. The interactions of social and
the political system in the process of reflecting society's demands and
supports are described by using the David Easton model. This model is a
deductive construct, offering a description of the general relationships
of the variables in the political system. The Easton model provides a
systematic framework within which research on political behavior can be
analyzed so that relationships between the interacting political variables
become clearer and generalizations on these relationships can be attempted.
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iii, 165 p.
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