Civil rights have been a major social and political issue in the United States since the nation's earliest days. From the abolishion of slavery, to the Jim Crowe laws in the south, through the civil rights movement of the 1960's, this issue has impacted the country's landscape perhaps more than any other. In the book Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality, author Thomas Sowell explores the events of the 1960's through truthful, and practical eyes. Has the reality of the present upheld the expectations, and lived up to the promise of the past? Or is it still the same old costume with a new mask?

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