Sharing the Prize - The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South

Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows that the civil rights struggle was of economic benefit to all parties: the wages of southern blacks increased dramatically but not at the expense of southern whites.

About the author

Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Wright
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780674980402
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98040-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Afrikanische Geschichte, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / African American, History - U.S., POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Economic history, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship