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July 6, 2023

Counterrevolution The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement

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Free Download Stephen Steinberg, "Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement"
English | ISBN: 1503630021 | 2022 | 306 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Black Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, "The slave went free; stood for a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." His words echo across the decades as the civil rights revolution, marked by the passage of landmark civil rights laws in the ’60s, has seen those gains steadily and systematically whittled away. As history testifies, revolution nearly always triggers its antithesis: counterrevolution. In this book Steinberg provides an analysis of this backlash, tracing the reverse flow of history that has led to the current national reckoning on race.

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