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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 progress toward equality has been sporadic, isolated, and surrounded by long periods of stagnation and retrenchment. - Publisher
eBook, English, 2002
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 2002
History
1 online resource (viii, 417 pages : illustrations)
1035759791
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?
Originally published: 1999
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