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New at Reason: Damon Root on Classical Liberalism and the Fight for Equal Rights

Spend some time on most college campuses and you're likely to hear how progressives and leftists led the battle against slavery, Jim Crow, and racism, while conservatives and libertarians either sat it out or sided with the bad guys. But as Associate Editor Damon W. Root writes, there's a problem with this simplistic view: It completely ignores the fact that classical liberals played an indispensable role in the fight for equal rights.

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