Sharing the Prize

Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows that the civil rights struggle was of economic benefit to all parties: the wages of southern blacks increased dramatically but not at the expense of southern whites.

Author(s): Gavin Wright
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-02-25
Pages: 367
Categories: Business & Economics