The Closing Door
Subtitle: Conservative Policy and Black Opportunity
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780226632735
Subjects: Black studies; Central government; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Multicultural studies; Social issues; c 1980 to c 1990; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Sociology; USA; General; Political Science / General; African Americans; Atlanta Region; Atlanta Region (Ga.); Economic Conditions; Georgia
First sentence: The triumphs of the civil rights movement swept away the web of state laws mandating racial segregation in many aspects of life in seventeen states, but its successes were largely limited to the elimination of Jim Crow laws.