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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 economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just societyBlack demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty Images

Signed 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...

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