Presidential Stimulus and School Desegregation

Steamer, Robert J.

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“…In a 1963 article in Phylon Robert Steamer praises Kennedy's activism on the issue. 80 Steamer argued that Kennedy and his 'administrative spokesmen' had 'created a new mood which at the moment is primarily qualitative, but which will eventually have its quantitative effect on the Negro community'. 81 The President had more work to do, but Steamer was confident that Kennedy would accomplish his activist agenda, which Steamer argued surpassed the record of all of his predecessors.…”

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The Civil Rights Movement and the Presidency in the Hot Years of the Cold War: A Historical and Historiographical Assessment

Catsam

2007

History Compass

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The two most important phenomena that the United States confronted in the quarter century after the end of World War II were the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. Four presidents, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson had to deal with the most critical years of both the struggle for racial justice and the challenge of Communist totalitarianism. This historiographical article seeks to situate each of these presidents within the context of the explosion of literature on the presidency and the fight for black equality and to provide suggestive assessments of these presidencies and their successes and failures in addressing black demands.

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