From Rights to Economics

Timothy J. Minchin is associate professor of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

"Minchin's gripping stories are engaging and offer an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship."--Journal of American History ? "Especially important in highlighting the crucial intersection between Black activism and federal policy and intervention; the nature and extent of continuing white supremacy and Black protest; and the evolving positions taken by the federal government in the battle over entrenched racial discrimination."--Journal of Southern History ? "Shows how the success of the civil rights movement was the essential inspiration that energized new strategies and renewed commitments to campaign for African American economic equality. . . . Chronicle[s] the voices of African American workers and the union, community, religious, and political leaders struggling for economic justice in a new era of American history."--Labor Studies Journal ? "Covers new ground and forces us to reevaluate how the movements transpired after the mid-1960s. . . . An important and valuable work for civil rights and labor scholars."--Journal of American Ethnic History ? "[Shows] that southern Black economic progress after 1965 required ongoing struggle through political pressure, publicity, negotiation and litigation in order to realize the potential of the Civil Rights Act."--Southern Quarterly ? "Successfully sheds light on both the unique strategies activists used to expand Black economic opportunity . . . as well as significant, however overlooked, episodes in the ongoing civil rights era."--Florida Historical Quarterly ? "The great benefit of this book is its illumination in one volume of some of the complexities of the continuing struggle for civil rights after 1965."--North Carolina Historical Review ? "Successfully sheds light on both the unique strategies activists used to expand Black economic opportunity . . . as well as significant, however overlooked, episodes in the ongoing Civil Rights Era."--Florida Historical Quarterly ? "The great benefit of this book is its illumination in one volume of some of the complexities of the continuing struggle for civil rights after 1965."--North Carolina Historical Review ?