Table of Contents

1. Race and Reform in Minneapolis 2. Into the National Arena 3. FEPC: Stalemate in the Senate 4. Desegregation, Voting Rights, and the Elusive Search for Consensus 5. A Moment of Triumph: The 1964 Civil Rights Act 6. Preserving the New Deal coalition: The Politics of Race in 1964 7. Civil Rights Enforcement and the Assaults on Liberalism 8. Order and Justice: The Politics of Race in 1968 9. Jobs and the FAiled Search for an Interracial Coalition

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Exploring the links between Senator Hubert Humphrey's policies on racial justice and economic reform, Thurber investigates Humphrey's legislative agenda in the context of the tensions between the class-based politics of the New Deal to which Humphrey wished the party to return and the rights-based politics that eventually came to dominate the Democratic platform.

About the Author

Timothy N. Thurber teaches American history at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Reviews

Timothy N. Thurber's book is a fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship reevaluating, yet again, the history of American liberalism...Thurber is unusually good at showing how politics and government actually work. -- Leo P. Ribuffo American Historical Review