How Equality Begat Inequality
And Other Ways the 1970s Shaped Our World
I grew up in the South, but as part of a carpetbagger family. My Californian parents moved to Jim Crow North Carolina in 1951 for my dad to take a job as a young psychology professor. They didn’t quite know what they were getting into. Early on, my father went to see a movie at the downtown Carolina Theater in Durham, got in the ticket line, waited, and waited some more. The line didn’t move. But other people walked by occasionally and went right in the door. He looked around …
