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Article: Rise of "the new segregation": the "politics of difference" threatens to produce a divided society.
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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THE CIVIL RIGHT's movement of the 1950s and 1960s culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights and 1965 Voting Rights Acts--two monumental pieces of legislation that dramatically have altered the fabric of American life. During the struggle for their passage, a new source of power came into full force. Black Americans and their supporters tapped into the moral power inspired by a 300-year history of victimization and oppression and used it to help transform society, humanize it, and make it more tolerant and open. They realized, moreover, that the victimization and oppression blacks had endured came from a marriage of race and power. They had to stop those who maintained that, ...