Second Redemption

Second Redemption is a term that has been used regarding politics of the United States for the period following the election of 1968 characterized by more conservatism, and a retreat from governmental and judicial activism on issues of civil rights.

See also

• White backlash
• Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
• Desegregation busing
• Reconstruction Era
• Redeemers
• Southern strategy
• American Civil War
• Civil Rights Movement
• Neoabolitionism

References

• Kousser, J. Morgan, "The Supreme Court And The Undoing of the Second Reconstruction
• Joondeph, Bradley W., "A Second Redemption?" Washington and Lee Law Review,(Winter 1999).
• Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton, and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: The New Press, 1996.