American Civil Rights - African Americans - 1960s - Nixon's Presidency
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- President Nixon - A good President for African Americans?
- Affirmative Action
- To make Federal contractors hire a higher amount of ethnic minority workers.
- From 4% to 26%
- So Af. Amer. could have more of an equal chance competing White Americans for job oppourtnities
- From 4% to 26%
- Built trade unions
- New York
- Pittsburgh
- Detroit
- Impacts
- White trade union workers opposed - Felt the employment quotas were against them --> Less white people working
- Opposition from black leaders - quotas slowed down the rate of change
- 1971 - Grigg vs. Duke Power Company the Supreme Court favoured Affirmative Action
- 1972 - Over 300,000 firms had taken the policy
- To make Federal contractors hire a higher amount of ethnic minority workers.
- Black Capitalism
- Nixon believed welfare was negative because it created state dependency
- 'Creeping socialism'
- Capitalism was the best way to help African Americans out of poverty
- Government's spending on Minority Business Enterprises went from $200 million to $472 million
- Voting behvaiour
- 1972 Election
- African Americans still voted for the Democrats
- Shows lack of support for Nixon
- Supported by middle-class African Americans
- African Americans still voted for the Democrats
- 1972 Election
- Due to Economic fail, black people were 2x unemployed compared to Whites
- For black youth it exceeded 30%
- 1940 - 87% of Af-Amer. below the poverty line
- 1960 - 50%
- 1974 - 30%
- 1960 - 50%
- Nixon believed welfare was negative because it created state dependency
- School Desegregation
- Nixon opposed desegregation to appeal to White voters
- Until 1973, he blocked all court orders requiring 'bussing'
- After the resignation of 125 people of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, he openly admitted in 1970 that he supported desegregation, but opposed 'bussing'
- 1969 - 68% of African American children were attending segregated schools in the South. When he left office, the figure had dropped to 8%
- Some Republicans thought he was being too sympathetic to the Civil Rights movement
- Governor of California, Reagan, and Buchanan began to campaign to exterminate the influence of Liberals
- Affirmative Action
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