Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society
- Written by Kevin A. Young, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst
Black demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty ImagesSigned into law nearly 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.”
Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and...