Tracking and Understanding Black Views (2015), he analyzes the civil rights movement accomplishments through surveys of self-identified blacks, which asked them if racial discrimination had declined since the civil rights movement. The movement sought to break down barriers and eliminate racial disparities. Whether respondents believed that the movement had reduced discrimination is a particularly salient way to gauge whether individuals perceived hat the movement had made meaningful progress in securing its most basic goal. This article points out that the according to whites, the movement eliminated racial barriers and was successful, therefore black disadvantage is a product of the individuals own fault, their culture or their