The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South.

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The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South

Long-term Factors in Economic Development series

Howard Bodenhorn

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Despite the many advances that the United States has made in racial equality over the past half century, numerous events within the past several years have proven prejudice to be alive and well in modern-day America. In one such example, Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina dismissed one of her principal advisors in 2013 when his membership in the ultraconservative Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) came to light. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2001 the CCC website included a message that read "God is the one who divided mankind into different races.... Mixing the races is rebelliousness against God." This episode reveals Americas continuing struggle with race, racial integration, and race mixing--a problem that has plagued the United States from its earliest days.

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