Only a relatively small share (16%) say little or nothing remains to be done.Įchoing the social fractures of the civil rights era, the survey finds the country remains deeply divided by race and by political partisanship over what has been accomplished and what still needs to be done to achieve racial equality. Three-in-ten (31%) say some progress still needs to be made. About half of all Americans (49%) say the country still needs to make “a lot” more progress to become a truly color-blind society. Yet the overwhelming majority says the slow and sometimes painful process of building a color-blind society remains largely unfinished business. An additional 36% say “some” improvement has been made, while about one-in-six Americans (15%) say they have seen little or no change. At the same time about half also say that much remains to be done.Ī new Pew Research Center survey finds that 45% of the public says the country has made a lot of progress in the past 50 years toward racial equality. Fewer than half of all Americans say the country has made “a lot” of progress in the past 50 years toward achieving King’s vision of racial equality.
Five decades after Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., racial equality remains an elusive goal.
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