The Classical Liberal Foundation of Civil Rights – David Lewis Schaefer

The Classical Liberal Foundation of Civil Rights – David Lewis Schaefer

For too long, the history of race relations in the United States has been misrepresented as a battle between “progressive” liberals, supposedly partisans of policies that benefited racial minorities, and “conservatives” trying to block their advancement. Jonathan Bean’s Race and Liberty, of which the first edition appeared in 2009, constitutes an invaluable corrective to that portrayal. A partisan of the “classical” liberal tradition—the liberal…