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A Century of Segregation - Race, Class, and Disadvantage (Hardcover)
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A Century of Segregation - Race, Class, and Disadvantage (Hardcover)
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This book explains how race and class intersect in ways that
uniquely disadvantage racial minorities. The narrative begins with
the 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. The Supreme Court ruled
that separate facilities for blacks were permissible under the
Fourteenth Amendment if they were "equal" to those reserved for
whites. One reaction was the establishment of the NAACP to lead the
fight for Civil Rights. After more than two decades of lobbying and
public education, a long-range, carefully orchestrated, litigation
campaign was launched. Segregation would be challenged with
lawsuits insisting that black schools be made physically and
otherwise equal to white schools. The lawyers calculated that the
resulting burden and expense would ultimately cause segregation to
collapse under its own weight. A series of successful
"equalization" suits spanning over two decades laid the foundation
for the direct challenge in Brown v. Board of Education. That 1954
decision inspired a large-scale, grass roots Civil Rights Movement.
A decade of marches, boycotts, and mass protests persuaded Congress
to enact the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s. Today, conditions for
ethnic minorities are far better than they were a generation ago.
However, the story of the nation's black and brown communities is a
tale of two cities; one prosperous, educated and affluent adjacent
to another suffering from grinding poverty and a lack of
opportunities for advancement. For those able to take advantage of
the opportunities created by the Civil Rights revolution, the gains
have been dramatic. For those left behind in impoverished
communities, the obstacles to advancement are more daunting today
than they were a generation ago.
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