Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement

by Stephen Steinberg

In Black Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, "The slave went free; stood for a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." His words echo across the decades as the civil rights revolution, marked by the passage of landmark civil rights laws in the '60s, has seen those gains steadily and systematically whittled away. As history testifies, revolution nearly always triggers its antithesis: counterrevolution. In this book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503630021
• ISBN13: 9781503630024
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"