A study of the efforts of economists Henry Brougham and William Ellis provides a glimpse into a fascinating period in history when economic ideas were not well developed and when there was an intense competition to win the minds of the middle and lower classes.

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The disparity between the ideal, a democratic America, and the reality, racial oppression and poverty, is so great that serious voices among blacks, students, and others challenged the ethical foundations of the nation in the 1960s. Local political organizations emerging out of black ghettos led a black revolt, asserting a revolutionary black nationalism rather than social reform and integration. For those blacks, white America could no longer dictate right and wrong, and certainly could no longer tell blacks how best to pursue their goals. Th is feeling was so strong among the adherents of...

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