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Rights and Justice in Nixon's America conference programme
Time Title  Presenter (s)
9.00-9.30 am Registration/Welcome
9.30-11.00 am Session 1: Challenging the Conservative Era
"The Bethune Memorial and Uses of the Past in Nixon's America" Jenny Woodley
"'The Revolution That Wasn't': The supreme Court and Religion in Nixon's America" Emma Long
"Richard Nixon: friend or foe? An analysis of the 37th President's Indian Policy in the Red Power era" Ben Harvey Sporle
"The Origins of 'Rights Talk' in the Arts: Richard Nixon, Federal Arts Policymaking, and the Long Great Society" Karen Heath
11.00-11.30 am Coffee Break
11.30-12.30 pm Plenary:  Title TBC Jon Bell
12.30-1.30 pm Lunch
1.30-3.00 pm Session 2: Activism & Rights
"Erasing Minds: The Black Power Movement, Political Prisoners, and the Struggle Against Psychiatric Repression Inside America's Penitentiaries" Zoe Colley
"Did the Nixon Administration Have a Human Rights Policy?" Sara B. Snyder
"'Idealism at its worst': Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, Student Activists, and the University of Tennessee, May 28, 1970" Katherine J. Ballantyne
"Nixon and the Politics of Disaster" Gareth Davies
3.00-3.30 pm Tea Break
3.30-5.00 pm Session 3: Economic Justice & Work
"Black Capitalism, the Family Assistance Plan, and the Nixon Administration's racialized rhetoric of work" Tom Adam Davies
President Nixon and the War on Poverty: Mississippi's Community Services Association" Emma Folwell
"'Our Focus Must Be On Jobs': Hubert Humphrey, the Right to a Job, and the Search for a New Democratic Majority, 1968-1978" Patrick Andelic
"'Don't Expect Nothing from your Government': Welfare and Tax Opposition on All in the Family, 1971-1974" Oscar Winberg

 

 

Department of American and Canadian Studies

The University of Nottingham
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