A01=Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Author_Earl Ofari Hutchinson
black rights
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Circuit Court
Civil Rights Bill
Civil Rights Leaders
civil rights policy
conservative legal obstructionism
Core Activist
Criminal Civil Rights
criminal civil rights statutes
DOJ
DOJ's Attorney
Dyer Bill
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executive power limitations
FBI Agent
federal response to racist violence
fourteenth amendment enforcement
institutional racism analysis
Jackson State
Justice Department
King Beating
LAPD Officer
Lee Murder
Mob Members
NAACP Executive Secretary
NAACP Office
presidential civil rights history
Racial Terrorism
racial violence legislation
racist violence
SNCC Activist
SNCC Worker
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White America
White House's failure
White Law
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367009991
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this timely and eye-opening book, noted political analyst and media commentator Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson traces the root cause of the White House's failure to protect the rights of African Americans. Drawing extensively from public and private presidential papers, private correspondence, personal interviews, and national archive documents, Hutchinson gives a rich historical account of the racial philosophy, policies, and practices of successive presidents from Warren G. Harding to Bill Clinton. Franklin D. Roosevelt is one example. The popular view is that Roosevelt was a Mend to blacks because of his enactment of New Deal programs. But he was also a prisoner of the biased racial thinking of his times. He refused to actively support antilynching legislation and repeatedly curried political favor with racist southern Democrats. Lyndon B. Johnson is yet another example. He is known as a champion of civil rights, but Hutchinson details two crucial moments when Johnson shrank from using the full force of executive power to push Congress to enact new and tougher federal criminal civil rights statutes to punish racist violence. In this book, Hutchinson reveals that no American president has ever signed into law a federal antilynching bill despite a 50-year campaign by the NAACP for presidential and congressional action. He documents how Nixon, Reagan, and Bush rolled back civil rights and affirmative action, failed to fully enforce equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment against police abuse and racial violence, encouraged conservative legal obstructionism, and fueled the rise of a repressive domestic security state. These actions in turn have reinforced institutionalized racism and continued the historical pattern of devaluing black lives in law and public policy. Finally, Hutchinson warns that the century-old failure by the White House to enforce federal law to protect black lives still has dangerous consequences for American society.
