Changing Course: Civil Rights at the CrossroadsChanging Course traces the rise and fall of the civil rights movement in the United States. It locates the origins of the civil rights vision firmly in the intellectual soil of the American Revolution. This vision carried the day through the abolition of slavery to the triumph of equal opportunity in the 1960s. Throughout, Bolick argues, the efforts of the civil rights movement were rooted in principles of natural law, and anchored in concern for fundamental rights and equality under the law. Bolick explores the movement's sudden abandonment of those principles during the 1960s, and examines the nature and consequences of the revised civil rights agenda during the past two decades. The book is particularly timely, appearing in the midst of growing polarization over civil rights and at a time when both liberals and conservatives are grappling to set a course of action for the post-Reagan years. "Changing Course "identifies clearly real civil rights problems of today as government-erected barriers to entrepreneurial and educational opportunity as well as a vicious cycle of dependency and despair. Bolick outlines a vigorous course of action that would eliminate those barriers based on traditional principles of civil rights. The book provides an intellectual and practical framework for a positive alternative to the agenda of the present-day civil rights establishment. It challenges advocates of individual liberty to reclaim leadership in the quest for civil rights for all. |
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... decades . The book is particularly timely , appearing in the midst of grow- ing polarization over civil rights and at a time when both liberals and con- servatives are grappling to set a course of action for the post - Reagan years ...
... decades . just as the movement was ap- proaching its zenith . Many of those who today invoke the mantle of lead- ership have attempted to transform the very nature of civil rights from those basic freedoms we all share equally as ...
... decades . The principal contemporary deprivations of civil rights are not difficult to identify . In at least three areas . government policies disproportionately and unjustifiably frustrate civil rights and burden minorities and the ...
... decade later . America was on the verge of making its civil rights vision a reality . The common theme unifying each ... decades . this consensus has eroded . and the definition of civil rights has become depen- dent upon one's vantage ...
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Contents
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Abolitionism The Quest for Freedom | 13 |
The Triumph of Opportunity | 31 |
The Quest Abandoned | 53 |
RECHARTING THE COURSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS | 79 |
Introduction to Part II | 81 |
The Failed Agenda | 84 |