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Shall We Overcome? Transcending Race, Class, And Ideology Through Interest Convergence, Sheryll Cashin
Shall We Overcome? Transcending Race, Class, And Ideology Through Interest Convergence, Sheryll Cashin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In the past year we have celebrated a number of civil rights milestones: the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education; the fortieth anniversaries of the March on Washington and of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Collectively our nation now venerates our most progressive, socially transforming legal edicts, even as we accept, or ignore, persistent racial inequality. Much has been written about the limits and modern meaning of Brown. Elsewhere I have argued that we have failed to live up to the integrationist vision that animated Brown and the civil rights movement, primarily because our neighborhoods remain …
The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 And Coalition Politics, Sheryll Cashin
The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 And Coalition Politics, Sheryll Cashin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Professor Days began his Childress Lecture by recounting his personal experience with Jim Crow segregation. I too have such a story. I was born and raised in Hunstville, Alabama, a city that is notable, among other things, for having desegregated its public accommodations in 1962, two full years before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The turning point in the non-violent sit-in movement in Hunstville was when a young, African- American woman was arrested with a four-month-old baby in her arms, along with a friend who was eight months pregnant. This caused some outrage and widespread press …
Getting The Politics Right On A National Gautreaux Program, Sheryll Cashin
Getting The Politics Right On A National Gautreaux Program, Sheryll Cashin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Alex Polikoff has provided an important national service in identifying the black ghetto as a singular, nation-threatening challenge that is also eminently redressable. His essay resonated greatly with me when I read it. After three years of working in the Clinton White House on urban policy and five years of writing academic articles about race and class segregation in America, I came to virtually the same conclusion about the costs and consequences of the black ghetto.