Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?

Armed with vast statistical research, economist Thomas Sowell deftly refutes the key assumptions on which the Civil Rights Movement (as we know it today) was erected "that discrimination leads to poverty and other adverse social consequences and...that adverse statistical disparities imply discrimination." He surgically probes the fundamental racial issues, e.g., affirmative action and busing, as well as women's issues including the Equal Rights Amendment.