Black Equality When Harvard Sitkoff Book Review

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He is also saying there is much more to be explained about the period 1954-1980. He conveniently provides a Bibliographical Essay (pp. 239-248) for further research by the reader.

Is the struggle for Black equality over? Certainly there is proof that struggles of the Civil Rights Movement are over. Black Americans have the right to vote (which they didn't really until the Voting Rights Act of 1965) and they have (on paper at least) all fundamental civil rights guaranteed under the Constitution (thanks to the Civil Rights Act of 1964). The glass is half full (in the context of the Civil Rights movement). But it cannot be said that Blacks are on an equal basis with Caucasians in all aspects of American life. Just because the country elected Obama as president does not mean that Blacks are now on an equal footing. An ABC News / Washington Post poll (2010) found that "fewer Americans believe Obama has helped race relations than when he took office, dropping from 58% to 41%" (Netter, 2010).

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A minority of vocal conservative Americans still believes Obama is Muslim; and the president's image has been "altered to look like an African witch doctor..." (Netter, 2010).

A Pew poll conducted in 2010 gives credibility to the argument that the glass is in fact half full and not half empty regarding civil rights and racial justice. Seventy percent of whites and 60% of Blacks say "the values held by blacks and whites have become more similar in the past 10 years" (http://pewsocialtrends.org). And that said, 43% of Blacks in the same poll say there still is "a lot of anti-black discrimination" (about the same as in 2001) but only 13% of whites polled see a lot of "anti-black bias" today (down from 20% in 2001).

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