Civil rights successes left deeply rooted racial habits and material suffering intact

Evidence

What had become painfully clear since the height of the civil rights movement was that large numbers of African Americans continued to suffer chronic unemployment, live in dilapidated housing, and face increased surveillance as calls for law and order became louder and more commonplace. Moreover, America was still reeling from Black Power, urban rebellions, protests over Vietnam, the sexual revolution, the impact of Watergate, and the volatile white backlash that came with increased economic insecurity. Jordan’s optimism had to confront the turmoil of the nation and the racial habits that remained deeply rooted despite the successes of the civil rights movement. The question was how? — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 456

Categorization

• DEFINE: First explicit appearance of ‘racial habits’ as distinct from both prejudice and the legal victories of the movement — a term the reader needs defined.
• XREF: The ‘racial habits remained despite civil rights victories’ structure maps onto the value-gap premise — traditions/structures outlasting formal legal change. — connects to: Civil rights victories secured legal gains that coexist with deepened material inequality — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 106