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After the civil rights era, white Americans failed to support systemic change to end racism. Will they now?

  • Written by Candis Watts Smith, Associate Professor of Political Science & African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University
After the civil rights era, white Americans failed to support systemic change to end racism. Will they now?Will white people's participation in Black Lives Matter protests yield real change?Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The first wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, which crested after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, had the support of less than half of white Americans.

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