Dream and Reality (eBook, PDF)

The Modern Black Struggle for Freedom and Equality
Redaktion: Swift, Jeannine

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Produktbeschreibung

The struggles of the 1960s brought about far-reaching changes, not only an end to legalized segregation and discrimination nationwide, but a change in the consciousness of both whites and blacks. After nearly three decades, however, black hopes for equality, particularly in the economic realm, are frustrated by political reaction and economic pressures. This collection of essays looks at the history of the black struggle and at the policies and political and economic realities that have brought progress to a near standstill.

In an introductory chapter, Julian Bond reviews two and a half decades of black struggle, giving particular attention to the shifting fortunes of the movement for black freedom and equality and the recent worsening of black poverty relative to the condition of the affluent majority. Several authors focus on the leadership of the civil rights movement, including neglected women leaders, and the history of the movement as a whole. Others analyze the experience of desegregation as it has affected both whites and blacks. Additional areas explored are the continuing problem of de facto segregation in schools, the condition of blacks in the workplace, and attempts to improve the situation of inner-city black youth. The volume concludes with an examination of options and strategies for reanimating the black agenda in the coming decades. The work of a distinguished group of scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with race relations, policy issues, the civil rights movement, and U.S. political and social history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 1991
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313064616
• Artikelnr.: 37842841

Autorenporträt

JEANNINE SWIFT is Associate Professor of Economics at Hofstra University. She also authored Latin American Economic Development and Agrarian Reform in Chile.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface A Tale of Two and One-Half Decades by Julian Bond A Tribute to
Martin Luther King, Jr. by David Jeffrey J. Garrow Rediscovering Women
Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement by Rhoda Lois Blumberg The Civil
Rights Movement: Upheaval and Organization by Jack Bloom Blacks and the New
South: Civil Rights in the Eighties by Robert D. Bullard Improving the
Plight of Black Inner-City Youths: Whose Responsibility? by Ronald L.
Taylor Racial Attitudes of Black and White Adolescents Before and After
Desegregation by George E. Dickinson The Ills of Integration: A Black
Perspective by Gerald A. Foster A Dream Deferred for Quality Education:
Civil Rights Legislation and De facto Segregation in the Cincinnati
Schools, 1954-1986 by Michael H. Washington The Housing Conditions of Black
Americans, 1960s-1980s by Wilhelmina A. Leigh The Collapse of the
Employment Policy Agenda: 1964-1981 by Helene Slessarev Black Workers at
Risk: Jobs for Life or Death by Beverly H. Wright "Where Do We Go from
Here?" by Vincent Harding Index