Jon Holbrook ‘I have a bad dream…’

Oct 23, 2016 by

by Jon Holbrook, spiked online:

From the high point of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington to lowly modern campaigns to ban ‘sexist’ ladies’ nights in bars and clubs – how far the civil-rights ideal has fallen.

1963 was also the year that the US Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which prohibited wage differentials based on sex. The following year the Civil Rights Act outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. The most significant consequence of this landmark legislation was the outlawing of racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and at public accommodations. The era of Jim Crow laws was coming to an end.

Despite the apparent success of the American civil-rights movement in the 1960s, in Rights Gone Wrong Richard Thompson Ford argues that the civil-rights approach to social justice reached its high-point sometime in the early 1970s and has been in decline ever since.

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