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Racial Repression, Power, and Continuity: The Post-1960s Black Freedom Struggle

Over the past two decades, scholarship concerning the black freedom struggle has explored the legacies and consequences of the movement since the passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s. The works emphasize what historian Jacqueline Hall termed a “long civil rights movement” that persisted into and beyond the 1970s, and addressed Charles Eagles’s challenge for scholars to examine the contemporary ramifications of the 1960s movement.1 Since the publication of those two influential essays, Emilye Crosby, Todd Moye, Hasan Jeffries, Françoise N. Hamlin, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, and J. Michael Butler, among others, have produced local studies that provide a more complex assessment of the freedom struggle. Their works collectively highlight the persistent challenges to racial equality that legislation did not address and the ongoing political, economic, and cultural challenges that African Americans still encounter in their demands for racial justice. In addition, Joseph Crespino, Kevin M. Kruse, and Matthew Lassiter have produced works that examine the evolution of white resistance since the 1960s ended at the local, regional, and national levels. The works of Greta de Jong and Kenneth Robert Janken contribute significantly to these dynamic historiographical strains and demonstrate the intersection of economic, political, and legal concerns as battlegrounds in the black freedom struggle as it evolved during and beyond the 1960s. Together, The Wilmington Ten and You Can’t Eat Freedom illustrate the limits of the civil rights movement to fundamentally alter the power imbalance that existed between white and black southerners during the twentieth century and the way its legacy continues to impact contemporary American race relations.