The black hole
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4247114
Aug 4th 2005
From The Economist print edition
Some of the things that helped blacks 40 years ago are now obstructions
FORTY years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting
Rights Act-and began to complete a process that should have been
resolved at Gettysburg a century earlier. After the civil war black
Americans were free to vote, but southern whites invented a myriad of
restrictions to stop them doing so, forcing them to pass impossible
literacy tests ("How high is high?") and threatening complainers
with the sack or much worse.
African Americans
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/64743d657576b841
How Race Is Lived in America
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/web-guide.html
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