Historians and the Civil Rights Movement

Chronicling a Movement for Civil Rights

The Paradox of Civil Rights

"The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?": The anti-abortion movement and the struggle for racial justice.

In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading ...

The Returns to Skill and Racial Difference in Parenting: Evidence from the Civil Rights Movement

On average, the parental practices adopted by African American parents of young children are much less cognitively stimulating than those of their white counterparts. This paper argues that these differences stem from the low rates of return to human capital historically experienced by African Americans. To study the relationship between the race-specific returns to skill and parenting, I use i...

Stealth Capture: The Civil Rights Movement and the Implementation of Medicare

David Barton Smith (dbs36@ drexel.edu) is Emeritus Professor, Program in Health Management and Policy, Temple University and Research Professor, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. A documentary film related to this story (produced by Barbara Berney, working title "The Power to Heal" and supported by the National Endowment for Humanities) is currently in the editing process and...