Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000 by Adam Fairclough
The author Adam Fairclough chronicles the struggle of black Americans to acheieve civil rights and equality in a society that, after the collapse of the Reconstruction, santioned racial segregation, racial discrimination and political supremacy. Throughout the book, Fairclough re-examines many issues and balances the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement against the persistance of racial and economic inequalities.