... New Deal Liberalism + Military Industrial Complex ("Guns and Butter-) Creating a Government based on "Civilian-Militarism- (from the dollar-a-year men to the revolving door between defense-based industrialism and government service). (Take Secretaries of Defense as an example: Charles Wilson (1953-1957), former President of GM, Neil McElroy (1957-1959), former President of Proctor and Gamble, Robert McNamara (1961-1967), former ... witnessing scenes of white violence in Little Rock, sent in Federal Troops to: "To restore the image of America in the eyes of the world, as one nation, indi...

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... de jure in the South. Therefore Northern politicians were exceedingly hesitant to support any efforts toward equalizing educational opportunities for black students. Several whites were against using school funds to bus black students to schools with open seats thus making it virtually impossible for black students to participate in the open enrollment program. On June 21, 1974, Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity ... welfare rights or the idea of allowing people to purchase things that are not within their means. Jon Rice's The World of the Illinois Panthers and Johanna Fernandez's Between...

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... and officially or unofficially found sanctuary behind federal lines. Black slaves who fled to Union lines, or "contrabands," often proved themselves extremely useful, even before the government enlisted them into service. African American volunteers were in readiness to serve in the Civil War when the Union called them. President Lincoln and Union leaders vacillated greatly on the question of the abolition ... as newspaper, radio, and television reporters and cameramen documented the struggle to end racial inequality. There were also continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation t...

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