Author: Québec (Province). Directeur général des élections
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780662512486
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Author: Canada. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780660506302
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 1496

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Author: Canada. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780660506302
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 1532

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Author: Canada. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Canada. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Canada. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Canada. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: David Hamilton Golland
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700630619
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Arthur Fletcher (1924–2005) was the most important civil rights leader you've (probably) never heard of. The first black player for the Baltimore Colts, the father of affirmative action and adviser to four presidents, he coined the United Negro College Fund's motto: "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste." Modern readers might be surprised to learn that Fletcher was also a Republican. Fletcher's story, told in full for the first time in this book, embodies the conundrum of the post–World War II black Republican—the civil rights leader who remained loyal to the party even as it abandoned the principles he espoused. The upward arc of Fletcher's political narrative begins with his first youthful protest—a boycott of his high school yearbook—and culminates with his appointment as assistant secretary of Labor under Richard Nixon. The Republican Party he embraced after returning from the war was "the Party of Lincoln"—a big tent, truly welcoming African Americans. A Terrible Thing to Waste shows us those heady days, from Brown v. Board of Education to Fletcher's implementing of the Philadelphia Plan, the first major national affirmative action initiative. Though successes and accomplishments followed through successive Republican administrations—as chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights under George H. W. Bush, for example, Fletcher's ability to promote civil rights policy eroded along with the GOP's engagement, as New Movement Conservatism and Nixon's Southern Strategy steadily alienated black voters. The book follows Fletcher to the bitter end, his ideals and party in direct conflict and his signature achievement under threat. In telling Fletcher's story, A Terrible Thing to Waste brings to light a little known chapter in the history of the civil rights movement—and with it, insights especially timely for a nation so dramatically divided over issues of race and party.

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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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