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Wolters, Raymond was born on July 25, 1938 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Raymond M. and Margaret G. (Reilly) Wolters.
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Du Bois and His Rivals by Wolters, Raymond University of Missouri, 2003 ( Paperback ) Paperback
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Du Bois and His Rivals
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W. E. B. Du Bois was the preeminent black scholar of his era. He was also a principal founder and for twenty-eight years an executive officer of the nation’s most effective civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Even though Du Bois was best known for his lifelong stance against racial oppression, he represented much more. He condemned the racism of the white world but also criticized African Americans for mistakes of their own. He opposed segregation but had reservations about integration. Today he would be known as a pluralist. In Du Bois and His Rivals, Raymond Wolters provides a distinctive biography of this great pioneer of the American civil rights movement. Readers are able to follow the outline of Du Bois’s life, but the book’s main emphasis is on discrete scenes in his life, especially the controversies that pitted Du Bois against his principal black rivals. He challenged Booker T. Washington because he could not abide Washington’s conciliatory approach toward powerful whites. At the same time, Du Bois’s pluralism led him to oppose the leading separatists and integrationists of his day. He berated Marcus Garvey for giving up on America and urging blacks to pursue a separate destiny. He also rejected Walter White’s insistence that integration was the best way to promote the advancement of black people. Du Bois felt that American blacks should be full-fledged Americans, with all the rights of other American citizens. However, he believed that they should also preserve and develop enough racial distinctiveness to enable them to maintain and foster a sense of racial identity, community, and pride. Du Bois and His Rivals shows that Du Bois stood for much more than protest against racial oppression. He was also committed to pluralism, and his pluralism emphasized the importance of traditional standards and of internal cooperation within the black community. Anyone interested in the civil rights movement, black history, or the history of the United States during the early twentieth century will find this book valuable.
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Du Bois and His Rivals by Wolters, Raymond (2002) Hardcover
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The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation
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Burden Of Brown, The: Thirty Years Of School Desegregation by Wolters, Raymond
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(Burden Brown: Thirty Years School Desegregation ) Author: Raymond Wolters Jul-1992
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The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation 2nd edition by Wolters, Raymond (1984) Hardcover
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Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights
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In the spirit of the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 called for nondiscrimination for American citizens, seeking equality without regard for race, color, or creed. After the mid-1960s, to make amends for wrongs of the past, some people called for benign discrimination to give blacks a special boost. In business and government this could be accomplished through racial preferences or quotas; in public education, by considering race when assigning students to schools. By 1980 this course reached a crossroads. Raymond Wolters maintains that Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds made the "right turn" when they questioned and limited the use of racial considerations in drawing electoral boundaries. He also documents the Reagan administration's considerable success in reinforcing within the country, and reviving within the judiciary, the conviction that every person black or white should be considered an individual with unique talents and inalienable rights. This book begins with a biographical chapter on William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General who was the principal architect of Reagan's civil rights policies. It then analyzes three main civil rights issues: voting rights, affirmative action, and school desegregation. Wolters describes specific cases: at-large elections and minority vote dilutions; congressional districting in New Orleans; legislative districting in North Carolina; the debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1964; social science critiques of affirmative action; the question of quotas; and school desegregation and forced busing. Because Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds were men of the right, and because most journalists and historians are on the left, Wolters feels the "people of words" have dealt harshly with the Reagan administration. In writing this book, he hopes to correct the record on a subject that has been badly represented. Wolters points out that, beginning in the 1980s and continuing in the 1990s, the Supreme Court endorsed the legal arguments that Reagan's lawyers developed in the fields of voting rights, affirmative action, and school desegregation. In Right Turn, Wolters responds to those who claimed that Reagan and Reynolds were racists who wanted to turn back the clock on civil rights, and he describes civil rights cases and controversies in a way that is comprehensible to general readers as well as to lawyers and historians.
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- The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of Desegration
- The New Negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s (The Description for this book, New Negro on Campus, will ...)
- The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation by Raymond Wolters (1984-05-24)
Raymond Wolters
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Raymond Wolters, American historian, educator. Fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1971-1972, American Council Learned Societies, 1978-1979, Earhart Foundation, 1989-1990; recipient Silver Gavel award American Bar Association. Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, Southern History Association.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Stanford University, 1960; Master of Arts, University of California-Berkeley, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California-Berkeley, 1967.
Career
Instructor department history, U. Delaware, Newark, 1965-1967; assistant professor, U. Delaware, Newark, 1967-1970; associate professor, U. Delaware, Newark, 1970-1975; professor, U. Delaware, 1975-1996; Thomas Muncy Keith professor, U. Delaware, since 1996.
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Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights
( In the spirit of the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964...)
- Du Bois and His Rivals by Wolters, Raymond University of Missouri, 2003 ( Paperback ) Paperback
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The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation
(Burden Of Brown, The: Thirty Years Of School Desegregatio...)
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The New Negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s
( The Description for this book, New Negro on Campus, wil...)
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Burden Brown: Thirty Years School Desegregation by Raymond Wolters (15-Jun-1992) Paperback
(New copy. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US.)
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Du Bois and His Rivals
( W. E. B. Du Bois was the preeminent black scholar of hi...)
- The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of Desegration
- Du Bois and His Rivals by Wolters, Raymond (2002) Hardcover
- The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation by Raymond Wolters (1984-05-24)
- (Burden Brown: Thirty Years School Desegregation ) Author: Raymond Wolters Jul-1992
- The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation 2nd edition by Wolters, Raymond (1984) Hardcover
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Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Administration, and Black Civil Rights
Membership
Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, Southern History Association.
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Married Mary McCullough, June 23, 1962. Children— Jeffrey, Kevin, Thomas.
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American
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1960
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1962
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1967
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1965 - 1967
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Fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1971-1972, American Council Learned Societies, 1978-1979, Earhart Foundation, 1989-1990. Recipient Silver Gavel award American Bar Association.Fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1971-1972, American Council Learned Societies, 1978-1979, Earhart Foundation, 1989-1990. Recipient Silver Gavel award American Bar Association.