The Racial Politics of the 1956 Elections
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This chapter discusses how the emerging Civil Rights Movement and the controversy over Brown’s implementation played out in American partisan politics. Specifically, the United States Senate’s Southern Caucus, under the leadership of Senator Richard Brevard Russell, Jr., led a concerted regional program to subvert Brown. In turn, President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s response to the controversy over Brown and the Autherine Lucy riots proved to be the driving force of American politics in the 1956 national elections, determining Ike’s own decision to seek reëlection/. The Civil Rights Movement also set the course for the Democratic Presidential Primaries in that election year, almost becoming definitive issue in American politics.
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pp. 167-180
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