Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2-11-2009
SSRN Discipline
Economics Research Network; Legal Scholarship Network; Public Choice & Political Economy eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; SRPN Subject Matter eJournals; ERN Subject Matter eJournals; Financial Economics Network; Sustainability Research & Policy Network; Social Responsibility of Business eJournals
Abstract
This Essay reviews Mary Dudziaks Cold War Civil Rights which demonstrates how the selfinterest of elite groups fueled breakthroughs for blacks in order to advance US strategic objectives in the Cold War with international communism An impressive feat of historical research Cold War Civil Rights strengthens the case for crediting material explanations for the uneven line of racial progress and retreat The essay goes on to show how interestconvergence explains not only how the civil rights movemnt began when it did but also how it came to an end about 15 years later
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
Explaining the Rise and Fall of African-American Fortunes -- Interest Convergence and Civil Rights Gains,
(2009).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/657