Second Redemption is a term that has been used regarding
politics of the United States
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for the period following the election of
1968 characterized by more
conservatism
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, and a retreat from governmental and judicial activism on issues of
civil rights
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.
See also
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White backlash
White backlash, also known as white rage, is related to the politics of white grievance, and is the negative response of some white people to the racial progress of other ethnic groups in rights and economic opportunities, as well as their grow ...
* ''
Milliken v. Bradley'' (1974)
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Desegregation busing
Race-integration busing in the United States (also known simply as busing, Integrated busing or by its critics as forced busing) was the practice of assigning and student transport, transporting students to schools within or outside their local s ...
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Reconstruction Era
The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865) and lasting until approximately the Compromise of 1877. During Reconstruction, attempts were made to rebuild the country after the bloo ...
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Redeemers
The Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction era of the United States, Reconstruction Era that followed the American Civil War, Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Par ...
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Southern strategy
In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. As the civil rights movement and dismantling of ...
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American Civil War
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Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional Racial segregation in the United States, racial segregation, Racial discrimination ...
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Neoabolitionism
References
* Kousser, J. Morgan,
The Supreme Court And The Undoing of the Second ReconstructionJoondeph, Bradley W., "A Second Redemption?" ''Washington and Lee Law Review,''(Winter 1999).* Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton, and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, ''Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education.'' New York: The New Press, 1996.
History of civil rights in the United States
History of African-American civil rights
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