Contents -- Prologue: Deeds versus Words -- 1. Flexible Response: Southern Politics and School Desegregation -- 2. Open Communities versus Forced Integration: Romney, Nixon, and Fair Housing -- 3. The Art of Compromise: Extending the Voting Rights Act -- 4. Jobs Are Nixon's Rights Program: The Philadelphia Plan and Affirmative Action -- 5. Black Power, Nixon Style: Minority Businesses and Black Colleges -- 6. A Cold War: Nixon and Civil Rights Leaders -- 7. Challenges and Opportunities: Native American Policy -- 8. Stops and Starts: Women's Rights -- Epilogue: In the Shadow of Nixon -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.