THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
SOUTHERN RACISM
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To understand ow the civil rights movemeat came into existence, how backs
succesily challenged ait paces, ite necessary fist o pap the Tot of
ths rcism. Doing so ill make possible to undeand what blacks had to
‘fot inthe mid-twentieth cena. The civil hts movement encountered
bieress, resistance, even murder. Why? Why did the whites cling 20 tna
‘nal sepregation and the racial oppression ssid with i? What as
stke inthis supe?
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