title: Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition
author:  Manning Marable 
description: An update of one of the indispensable political and social histories of African Americans since World War II
zlib_text: The 
  Improbable 
  Era 
  
  The 
  Improbable 
  E r a 
  The South since 
  World War II 
  Charles P. Roland 
  REVISED EDITION 
  The University Press of Kentucky 
  
  Revised Edition 
  ISBN: 0-8131-0139-5 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-46033 
  Copyright © 1976 by The University Press of Kentucky 
  A statewide cooperative scholarly publishing agency 
  serving Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, 
  Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club, 
  Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, 
  Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, 
  Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, 
  Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, 
  University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. 
  Editorial and Sales Offices: Lexington, Kentucky 40506 
  
  To Doll Aycock <SL 
  to the memory of Frank Aycock 
  
  Contents 
  Acknowledgments
  Prologue
  I. The Postwar Economic Drama
  II. The Challenge to Racial Inequality
  III. The Achievement of Legal Equality
  IV. The Politics of Transition
  V.