The Minority Rights Revolution

Download or read book The Minority Rights Revolution written by John D. Skrentny and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the black civil rights movement, other disadvantaged groups of Americans began to make headway, and by the early 1970s a minority rights revolution was well underway. Skrentny exposes the connections between the diverse actions and circumstances that contributed to this revolution—and that forever changed American politics.