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Civil rights era may offer clues to long-term white support of racial reforms

by Candis Watts Smith, Associate Professor of Political Science & African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University

THE FIRST WAVE of the Black Lives Matter movement, which crested after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, had the support of less than half of white Americans. Given that Americans tend to have a very narrow definition of racism, many at that time were likely confused by the juxtaposition of Black-led protests, implying […]

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