Thursday, June 19, 2008
Our Gilded Age by Doug Henwood - The Nation
It has become a cliché to say that we live in a new Gilded Age. True enough, up to a point. Money, mostly new money, rules politics and culture. Corporations merge into ever larger corporations. You have to go back to before World War I to match today's levels of income and wealth inequality.... continue...
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(1901) William Hooper Councill’s Letter to the White People of Alabama
Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era. There we...
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A Hollow Inheritance: The Legacies of the Tuskegee Civic Association and the Crusade for Civic Democracy in Alabama by Gabriel Antoine Smi...
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