Winning While Losing: Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama
In: The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency
In: Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency Ser
During the four decades separating the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Barack Obama, the meaning of civil rights has become increasingly complex. Civil rights leaders made great strides in breaking down once-impermeable racial barriers, but they also suffered many political setbacks in their attempts to remedy centuries of discrimination and oppression as race and the ascendancy of conservatism in America became inextricably intertwined. This pioneering collection of essays chronicles the ways in which presidential politics have shaped black experiences in the aftermath of the civil ri