Second Redemption is a term that has been used regarding politics of the United States for the period following the election of 1968 characterized by more conservatism, and a retreat from governmental and judicial activism on issues of civil rights.[1]
Further reading
- Kousser, J. Morgan. The Supreme Court And The Undoing of the Second Reconstruction (PDF).
- Joondeph, Bradley W. (Winter 1999). “A Second Redemption?”. Washington and Lee Law Review. Archived from the original on 2008-06-07.
See also
- White backlash
- Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
- Desegregation busing
- Reconstruction Era
- Redeemers
- Southern strategy
- American Civil War
- Civil Rights Movement
- Neoabolitionism
References
- ^ Orfield, Gary; Eaton, Susan E. (1996). Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. Harvard Project on School Desegregation. New York: The New Press.