# Second Redemption

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Period following the U.S. election of 1968

**Second Redemption** is a term that has been used regarding [politics of the United States](/source/Politics_of_the_United_States) for the period following the election of [1968](/source/1968_United_States_presidential_election) characterized by more [conservatism](/source/Conservatism_in_the_United_States), and a retreat from governmental and judicial activism on issues of [civil rights](/source/Civil_rights_movement).[1]

## Further reading

- Kousser, J. Morgan. [*The Supreme Court And The Undoing of the Second Reconstruction*](http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~kousser/racial%20discrimination/The%20Supreme%20Court%20and%20the%20Undoing%20of%20the%20Second%20Reconstruction.pdf) (PDF).

- Joondeph, Bradley W. (Winter 1999). ["A Second Redemption?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080607174806/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3655/is_199901/ai_n8838077). *Washington and Lee Law Review*. Archived from [the original](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3655/is_199901/ai_n8838077) on 2008-06-07.

## See also

- [White backlash](/source/White_backlash)

- *[Milliken v. Bradley](/source/Milliken_v._Bradley)* (1974)

- [Desegregation busing](/source/Desegregation_busing)

- [Reconstruction Era](/source/Reconstruction_Era)

- [Redeemers](/source/Redeemers)

- [Southern strategy](/source/Southern_strategy)

- [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War)

- [Civil Rights Movement](/source/Civil_Rights_Movement)

- [Neoabolitionism](/source/Neoabolitionism_(race_relations))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Orfield, Gary](/source/Gary_Orfield); Eaton, Susan E. (1996). [*Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education*](https://thenewpress.com/books/dismantling-desegregation). Harvard Project on School Desegregation. New York: The New Press.

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