Sixty percent of U.S. blacks believe whites have better chances than blacks to get jobs for which they are qualified, while 39% believe whites and blacks have equal opportunities. Blacks’ views are more positive now than they were in 1963, when 74% thought whites had better chances at jobs. Blacks […] Read more »
Many Americans say King’s dream hasn’t become a reality yet
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. declared his desire for a more colorblind America in his stirring “I have a dream” speech. “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin […] Read more »
Blacks Less Satisfied With Way Blacks Are Treated
Blacks are somewhat less satisfied now (41%) than they were earlier this summer (47%) with the way blacks are treated in the U.S. By contrast, their views of how other groups are treated are no worse today than they were in June and early July. [cont.] Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Post-Zimmerman, Blacks More Concerned About Civil Rights
A month after Florida neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges in the shooting death of a black teen named Trayvon Martin, blacks are more likely than they were just prior to the July 13 verdict to believe new civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against […] Read more »
Why the march anniversary matters—especially for whites
When thousands massed on the Mall Saturday to celebrate the 1963 March on Washington, they weren’t simply marking the rally’s 50th anniversary. They were also helping sustain the significance of the civil rights movement in the public consciousness. That’s the implication of a new article by researchers Amy Corning and […] Read more »
The long struggle: The March on Washington, fifty years later
Ernest Green, raised in segregated Arkansas, remembers August 28, 1963. — The Economist Read more »