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Author: John Higham

📘 Civil rights and social wrongs by John Higham

John Higham and the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies curate nine original essays—plus a previously published tenth—offering a compact yet comprehensive examination of the modern civil rights movement. The collection analyzes how the movement originated, the shifting relationships between blacks and whites, and its influence on affirmative action, multiculturalism, and contemporary social challenges.

First publish date: 1997

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: John Higham

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