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Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society

  • Written by Kevin A. Young, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst
imageBlack demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty Images

Signed into law 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.”

Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and political...

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