After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965

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CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Historic Progress: Public Accommodations and Voting Rights in the Johnson Years 11 2. “Token Beginnings”: The Battle to Desegregate Southern Schools and Workplaces, 1965–1968 34 3. A Fragmented Crusade? The Civil Rights Struggle in the Aftermath of the King Assassination, 1968–1970 58 4. Defiance and Compliance: The Breakdown of Freedom of Choice in the South’s Schools 81 5. The Busing Years: School Desegregation in the Wake of Swann 107 6. Home Has Changed: Southern Race Relations in the Early 1970s 128 7. Paving the Way for Full Participation: Civil Rights in the Ford Years 145 8. Mixed Outcomes: Civil Rights in the Carter Years 168 9. “No Substantial Progress”: Blacks, the Economy, and Racial Polarization in the Late 1970s 187 10. The Reagan Counterrevolution 206 11. From Bush to Bush: The Complexities of Civil Rights 237 12. The Aftermath: From History to Memory 254 13. Poverty and Progress: Four Decades of Change 273 Postscript 300 Notes 305 Bibliography 377 Index 393 Illustrations follow page 150 ...