Sharing the Prize

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Civil Rights, Business & Finance, Economics, Economic History, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
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Author: Gavin Wright ISBN: 9780674076495
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: February 25, 2013
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Gavin Wright
ISBN: 9780674076495
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: February 25, 2013
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows that the civil rights struggle was of economic benefit to all parties: the wages of southern blacks increased dramatically but not at the expense of southern whites.
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Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows that the civil rights struggle was of economic benefit to all parties: the wages of southern blacks increased dramatically but not at the expense of southern whites.

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