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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acnowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter One: The Formative Years -- Chapter Two: The First Step -- Chapter Three: Strike up the Band -- Chapter Four: Pastures New -- Chapter Five: The Next Step -- Chapter Six: The Beginning of the End -- Chapter Seven: A Different Tack -- Chapter Eight: The End of the Beginning -- Chapter Nine: Sink or Swim -- Chapter Ten: The Party's Over -- Chapter Eleven: The Awakening -- Chapter Twelve: Action -- Chapter Thirteen: Small is Best -- Chapter Fourteen: Things are Looking up -- Chapter Fifteen: Money Matters -- Chapter Sixteen: Things are Realy Looking up -- Chapter Seventeen: Geordie Land -- Chapter Eighteen: Above and Below -- Chapter Nineteen: And now the End is Near -- Chapter Twenty: To Summate -- Acnowledgments -- Copyright.

As we approach the closing years of the 1980s, it is clear that, for better or worse, the focus of the struggle for black equality is shifting from traditional civil rights issues to economic development. And although people often debate how best to remedy some of the black community's most persistent economic problems (for example, high unemployment and the narrowing, but still wide, income gap between blacks and whites), few people have attempted a dispassionate analysis of the broad scope of public and private economic options facing blacks. Too often, the debate is polarized by arguments either for increasing governmental assistance or for almost totally eliminating it. In this article, noted economist Andrew Brimmer strikes a much-needed balance. First, he scrutinizes the trends for blacks (and whites) regarding income and participation in the labor market. Then, instead of painting a picture in pure black and white, he suggests a blending of strategies, some calling for less reliance on the federal government, others requiring a strengthening of the nation s wavering commitment to affirmative action.