Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement

Revised and updated: the award-winning historical analysis of the civil rights movement examining the interplay of race and class in the American South.

In Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement, sociologist Jack M. Bloom explains what the civil rights movement was about, why it was successful, and why it fell short of some of its objectives. With a unique sociohistorical analysis, he argues that Southern racist practices were established by the agrarian upper class, and that only when ...