Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index.
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Presidents, race, and rhetoric -- Harry Truman and the NAACP -- Dwight Eisenhower against the extremists -- John F. Kennedy and the moral crisis of 1963 -- Lyndon Johnson overcomes -- Presidential rhetoric and the civil rights era.
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"Every President since Franklin Roosevelt has confronted civil rights issues during his tenure in the White House, and most have faced intense demands to speak publicly about the nation's racial problems and possible solutions. Indeed, modern American presidents have become a major focal point for the civil rights struggle." "In The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights, Garth E. Pauley examines modern presidents' communicative and symbolic involvement in these matters, focusing on four crucial speeches, the circumstances surrounding them, and their effect on public attitudes and policy."--Jacket.
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