Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era -- by Daniel Aaronson, Mark Borgschulte, Sunny Liu, Bhashkar Mazumder

We thank David Card, Desmond Ang, Bryan Stuart and seminar participants at Baylor, Berkeley, Dalhousie, Dartmouth, Davis, the NBER Summer Institute Development of the American Economy Sessions, Harris School at University of Chicago, Harvard Kennedy School, Macquarie, Marquette, Midwest Economics Association meetings, Montana State, Oregon, Purdue, Stanford, the University of Essex, University of Illinois, and the University of Montreal for comments. This project received support from the University of Illinois Multiracial Democracy Initiative. Karl Schulze, Amanda MacFarlane, Liam Puknys, and Rong Yuwen provided excellent research assistance. The views expressed in this paper do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Federal Reserve System, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.