Dana Williams<p>New <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> article coming out this year showing that US Southern counties with <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> organizations during the movement era (1954-65) now enjoy less <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/RacialInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RacialInequality</span></a> than those lacked any orgs. This diagram shows the prevalence of these CR organizations by county. Lots of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NAACP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NAACP</span></a> chapters, relatively few CORE orgs or <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SNCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SNCC</span></a> projects. Most counties had just one of the "Big 4" (NAACP, CORE, SNCC, or <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SCLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCLC</span></a>), 44% had 0. Counties containing <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Jackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jackson</span></a>, MS had all four. <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Juneteenth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Juneteenth</span></a></p>