The unsteady march : the rise and decline of racial equality in America

American life is filled with talk of progress and equality, especially when the issue is that of race. But has the history of race in America really been the continuous march toward equality we'd like to imagine it has? This sweeping history of race in America argues quite the opposite: that pr...

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Main Author: Klinkner, Philip A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Edition:Paperback ed.
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505 0 |a Introduction : The unsteady march -- Bolted with the lock of a hundred keys : the era of slavery, 1619-1860 -- Thenceforward, and forever free : the Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The Negro has got as much as he ought to have : Reconstruction and the Second Retreat, 1865-1908 -- The color line : Jim Crow in America, 1908-1938 -- Deutschland and Dixieland : antifacism and the emergence of civil rights, 1938-1941 -- Double V : victory abroad, victory at home : World War II -- Hearts and minds : the Cold War and civil rights, 1946-1954 -- There comes a time : the civil rights revolution, 1954-1968 -- Benign neglect? Post-civil rights America, 1968-1998 -- Conclusion : Shall we overcome? 
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