Civil rights victories benefitted only middle-class blacks by 1967

Evidence

Kenneth Clark echoed these sentiments in 1967: The masses of Negroes are now starkly aware that recent civil rights victories benefited a very small number of middle-class Negroes while their predicament remained the same or worsened. (Clark, quoted in Wilson 1981, 28) The radicalization of an important segment of the black movement took shape in the myriad disappointments and disillusionments that afÒicted civil rights activists: the acrimonious division between SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and civil rights moderates amidst the ferocity avery practical level. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 164

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the class-differentiated aftermath of civil rights legislation, connecting 1967 to contemporary wealth-gap debates.
• XREF: connects to: Civil rights victories secured legal gains that coexist with deepened material inequality — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 106