Civil Rights: Rhetoric Or Reality?

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W. Morrow, 1984 - Business & Economics - 164 pages
Written on the the 20th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of l964, Sowell examines what has been done and is being done in the name of civil rights. Discussing the underlying vision of the civil rights movement, he argues that the movement has moved from the fight to win fundamental rights to win entitlements of those they consider victims of discrimination. Probing into familiar racial issues and women's issues, he believes that what underprivileged Americans need more than special programs and transfer payments is an increased absorption of middle-class values, emphasizing work and frugality; and that more resources from government will do little to affect high rates of illegitimacy, low rates of educational achievement and of participation in the labor force and other ills of the black minority. ISBN 0-688-03113-7 : $11.95.

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The Civil Rights Vision
13
From Equal Opportunity
37
From School Desegregation
61
Copyright

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Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has been a professor of economics at leading American colleges and universities, and has lectured in Singapore, Israel, Switzerland, and Germany, as well as across the United States.

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