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Four Lessons Learned from This Year's Stuffed Supreme Court Docket | Scott Lemieux @ The American Prospect

As Philip Klinkner and Rogers Smith observed (among many others) in their book The Unsteady March, progress on civil rights isn’t a linear progression in which things start off terribly and keep getting better. Progress achieved in one generation can be substantially rolled back in the next; civil rights often advance for some groups while backsliding for others. (World War II catalyzed substantial civil rights advances for African-Americans; Americans of Japanese origin and suspected political radicals, conversely, saw substantial repression.)