caa a22 4500 388070536 CHVBK 20180307125147.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002205070002283X doi S002205070002283X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002205070002283X Wright Gavin Professor of American Economic History, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6072 The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History [Elektronische Daten] [Gavin Wright] This address urges Americanists to take the post-World War II era on board as economic history, using the Civil Rights Revolution to set an example. The speed and sweepof the movement's success illustrates the dynamics of an "unanticipated revolution” as analyzed by Timur Kuran, to be grouped with famous historical surprises such as the triumph of British antislavery and the fall of Soviet communism. The evidence confirms that the breakthroughs of the 1960s constituted an economic as well as a political revolution, in many respects an economic revolution for the entire southern region, as well as for African-Americans. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 267-289 0022-0507 59:2<267 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070002283X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070002283X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wright Gavin Professor of American Economic History, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6072 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 267-289 0022-0507 59:2<267 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge