Tags Growing rage of Black Americans over the inequities in so many parts of American life
Tag: growing rage of Black Americans over the inequities in so many parts of American life
How the 1968 uprisings gave us the Civil Rights Act of...
Dr. King’s assassination was the key marker in the transition of a great era of social change, from one where “inclusion” in the broader capitalist system was the general thrust to one where the general focus of the Black fight for equality became a broadly defined “self-determination,” rooted in a recognition of the entrenched nature of racism, not simply as a function of attitudes, but as a method of social control.