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On Whitelash and Affirmative Action

Simone Samuels
3 min readJun 30, 2023

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Out of the many things I learned during my tour of the Historic New Orleans Collection given by Winston Ho is that after any movement for civil rights, especially for Black people, you see a vicious “Whitelash” in response (to coin a term from Van Jones).

After Reconstruction, there was Jim Crow. The was a Whitelash after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement…

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Simone Samuels

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