Blacks and Social Change

An empirical analysis of the long-term impact of the American Civil Rights Movement on the lives of American blacks living in the South, this study has been awarded the V.O. Key Award of the Southern Political Science Association.

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This book is a long-term empirical analysis of the impact of the civil rights movement on the real-life situations of southern blacks. Looking at the period from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, it assesses the role of black political participation in six Florida cities.