SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Economic Restructuring, Affirmative Action
21 Mar 2019
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Answer: the inequivalency of hierarchy, power, and inequality. Significant legal, political, economic, and cultural reforms in the united states during the civil rights era reforms in the united states during the civil rights era. Economic and technological changes fundamentally changed the nature of work. These two changes led to the great migration. Both changes fundamentally shifted the nation"s racial demographics. Movement from rural to urban areas in the south. By mid 1950s, the two major parties were aligned in the following way: The south was a one-party region (democratic party) Northern democrats agreed to not push for racial reforms. Republicans at the time had a substantial moderate-liberal wing increasingly open to racial reforms. As more african-americans migrated north, their political power grew substantially. They could vote in the north, but not in the south. Northern democrats" fortunes now rested on winning large majorities of the black vote. The northern democrats were offering racial reforms, thus pissing off the southern.
