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Title:
Sharing the prize : the economics of the civil rights revolution in the American South
Author:
Wright, Gavin.
ISBN:
9780674049338
Personal Author:
Wright, Gavin.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
xii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Rights, economics, and the American South -- The political economy of the Jim Crow South -- Southern business and public accommodations : an economic-historical paradox -- Desegregating southern labor markets -- The economics of southern school desegregation -- The economic consequences of voting rights -- The downside of the civil rights revolution -- Civil rights economics : historical context and lessons.
Subject Term:
Civil rights movements -- Economic aspects -- Southern States.

Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.

Segregation -- Economic aspects -- Southern States.
Geographic Term:
Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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