“A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of more than 1,300 Americans nationwide finds that about nine of 10, black and white, say civil rights for African Americans have improved during their lifetimes.

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On the question of whether race relations between blacks and whites will always be a problem, there has been virtually no change at all among whites since 1963: 44% of whites said then that relations between blacks and whites would “always be a problem in the United States.” In the new poll, almost precisely the same number, 45%, of whites hold that view.

In contrast, the days of soaring optimism among blacks has ended.

In 1963, seven in 10 blacks predicted relations between blacks and whites “will eventually be worked out”; 26% said they would always be a problem. Now, 55% of blacks see it is as a conflict that won’t end.”

Poll respondents chart racial progress since MLK

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