Introduction -- Historic progress : public accommodations and voting rights in the Johnson years -- "Token beginnings" : the battle to desegregate southern schools and workplaces, 1965-1968 -- A fragmented crusade? : the civil rights struggle in the aftermath of the King assassination, 1968-1970 -- Defiance and compliance : the breakdown of freedom of choice in the south's schools -- The busing years : school desegregation in the wake of Swann -- Home has changed : southern race relations in the early 1970s -- Paving the way for full participation : civil rights in the Ford years -- Mixed outcomes : civil rights in the Carter years -- "No substantial progress" : blacks, the economy, and racial polarization in the late 1970s -- The Reagan counterrevolution -- From Bush to Bush : the complexities of civil rights -- The aftermath : from history to memory -- Poverty and progress : four decades of change -- Postscript.
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Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
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