Volume 42, Number 16 · October 19, 1995
Demonizing the American Dilemma
By George M. Fredrickson
The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society
by Dinesh D'Souza
Free Press, 724 pp., $30.00
More than thirty years have passed since the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965 freed African Americans from legalized segregation, denial of voting rights through the biased enforcement of registration laws, and blatant discrimination in the labor market. These were great and lasting achievements. Jim Crow laws are as dead in 1995 as slavery was in 1895. Blacks now vote without hindrance, and the African-American representation in the House is approaching their proportion of the total population. Although as a group they are far from economic parity with whites, blacks have attained high positions in government, the military, business, and education that would have been unimaginable forty or fifty years ago.
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