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Calculating Visions: Civil Rights Legislation in the Kennedy and Johnson Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Mark Stern
Mark Stern
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University of Central Florida
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The presidential years of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson are synonymous with the culmination of the Second Reconstruction. This study examines the civil rights legislative strategies of presidents Kennedy and Johnson as they dealt with what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Journal of Policy History , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 1993 , pp. 231 - 247
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1993

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