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- Title
THE NEGRO AND THE NEW FRONTIER.
- Authors
SHEPPERSON, GEORGE
- Abstract
The article discusses the civil rights policies of the administration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in the context of the politics of race relations in the United States since the end of the Second World War. The author outlines the attitudes of John F. Kennedy and of his brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, toward the decolonization process in Africa, the implementation of equal employment policies, and the impact of the civil rights movement and the governmental Civil Rights Commission on the policies of the federal government.
- Subjects
AFRICA; UNITED States; CIVIL rights; KENNEDY, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; KENNEDY, Robert F., 1925-1968; DECOLONIZATION; EMPLOYMENT discrimination; AMERICAN civil rights movement; UNITED States Commission on Civil Rights; RACE relations in the United States -- Political aspects; 20TH century history of race relations in the United States; UNITED States politics &; government, 1961-1963; PREVENTION
- Publication
Political Quarterly, 1962, Vol 33, Issue 2, p172
- ISSN
0032-3179
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-923X.1962.tb02726.x