The struggle for Black equality

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"The Struggle for Black Equality is an arresting history of the civil-rights movement from the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the major issues of today. Harvard Sitkoff offers not only a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations -- SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC, and the others -- but also a compelling study of the problems that continued to plague the African-American population at the close of the twentieth century: while Jim Crow had gone, poverty, big-city slums, white backlash, politically and socially conservative policies and prolonged recession made economic progress for the vast majority of blacks an elusive, perhaps ever more distant goal"--Back cover.