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Issue 3, the Piscataway, N.J., civil-rights settlement (in which civil-rights groups paid off a fired white teacher to avoid a potentially unfavorable Supreme Court ruling), also sputtered on the shows.
There were previously unthinkable triumphs: protests at Birmingham and Selma, Ala., that helped topple Jim Crow; a quarter-million Americans gathering in Washington to demand racial equality; black activists and Northern white volunteers registering hordes of black voters; a civil-rights act outlawing racial discrimination, passed despite a three-month Senate filibuster.
Lately, opponents of affirmative action have donned the mantle of the civil-rights movement, claiming direct descent from Martin Luther King Jr.
"He bulldoggedly opposed the women's rights movement, other civil-rights crusades and decolonization," objects Time . Roosevelt has better crossover appeal, since, in addition to defeating Hitler, he expanded economic opportunity through the New Deal (and gets credit for his wife's contributions to "feminism and social justice").
At the end of his account of Molly Munger's fight against the CCRI, and her deflation when after all her efforts it succeeds, Lemann tells us that she has left civil-rights work and has started a new organization devoted to improving education for the poor.