Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the US government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved.īut neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn.
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