
Milwaukee remains trapped in Nixon’s mirage of black capitalism
For all its political appeal, the concept of black capitalism has, for the past fifty years in Milwaukee and across the nation, failed to reduce inequality or to increase prosperity. By the time Richard Nixon rode into office in early 1969, the signal achievements of the civil rights movement—the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts and Brown v. Board of Education—were years behind him. In their wake a more radical black movement had gained momentum and had been met with an equally strong white backlash. Indeed Nixon’s victory depended on the creation of a new Republican coalition that felt...
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