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008			130218s2013 maua ob 001 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aE185 _b.S537 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aWright, Gavin, _d1943- _e1
245	1	0	_aSharing the prize : _bthe economics of the civil rights revolution in the American South / _cGavin Wright.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 353 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aCivil rights, economics, and the American South -- _tThe political economy of the Jim Crow South -- _tSouthern business and public accommodations : an economic-historical paradox -- _tDesegregating southern labor markets -- _tThe economics of southern school desegregation -- _tThe economic consequences of voting rights -- _tThe downside of the civil rights revolution -- _tCivil rights economics : historical context and lessons.
520	8		_a"The civil rights movement was also a struggle for economic justice, one that until now has not had its own history. Sharing the Prize demonstrates the significant material gains black southerners made--in improved job opportunities, quality of education, and health care--from the 1960s to the 1970s and beyond. Because black advances did not come at the expense of southern whites, Gavin Wright argues, the civil rights struggle was that rarest of social revolutions: one that benefits both sides. From the beginning, black activists sought economic justice in addition to full legal rights. The southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience, but they were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. In the period of enforced desegregation following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the wages of southern black workers increased dramatically. Wright's painstaking documentation of this fact undermines beliefs that government intervention was unnecessary, that discrimination was irrational, and that segregation would gradually disappear once the market was allowed to work. Wright also explains why white southerners defended for so long a system that failed to serve their own best interests. Sharing the Prize makes clear that the material benefits of the civil rights acts of the 1960s are as significant as the moral ones--an especially timely achievement as these monumental pieces of legislation, and the efficacy of governmental intervention more broadly, face new challenges"--Publisher description.
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650		0	_aCivil rights movements _xEconomic aspects _zSouthern States.
650		0	_aCivil rights movements _zSouthern States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _zSouthern States _xEconomic conditions _y20th century.
650		0	_aSegregation _xEconomic aspects _zSouthern States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=520799&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell