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A Matter of Justice
A Matter of Justice
Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution  
By David. A. Nichols
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Table of Contents

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE The Candidate

CHAPTER TWO Invoking Federal Authority

CHAPTER THREE The President and Brown

CHAPTER FOUR A Judiciary to Enforce Brown

CHAPTER FIVE The President and the Chief Justice

CHAPTER SIX Confronting Southern Resistance

CHAPTER SEVEN The Civil Rights Act of 1957

CHAPTER EIGHT The Little Rock Crisis

CHAPTER NINE Military Intervention in Little Rock

CHAPTER TEN Rising Expectations

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Final Act

CHAPTER TWELVE Leading from Gettysburg

CONCLUSION A Matter of Justice

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index