Black Leadership Question

Archive Report

Changing Goals and Tactics

New Challenges After Civil Rights Era

Twelve years ago, the Kerner Commission issued its report describing the United States as a nation of “two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.”1 Today, many of the outward signs of white discrimination and black anger have disappeared. Yet significant barriers to achieving racial equality still remain. This is due in part to the country's diluted enthusiasm for the black cause, and to what urban affairs writer Roger Wilkins has called the “denial” at the heart of American society. “A large portion of whites,” he wrote, “do not want … to face how brutally unfair life is, and has always been, for their black fellow countrymen.”2

A 1978 New York Times-CBS News poll indicated ...

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