Resolving Racial Conflict: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights, 1964-1989

by Bertram J. Levine

In 1964, when the Civil Rights Act was passed, Congress wisely created an agency based in the U.S. Department of Justice to help forestall or resolve racial or ethnic disputes evolving from the act. Mandated by law and by its own methodology to shun publicity, the Community Relations Service developed self-effacement to a fine art. Thus the accomplishments, as well as the shortcomings, of this federal venture into conflict resolution are barely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826215580
• ISBN13: 9780826215581
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5