Are We in the Reversal Stage of the Civil Rights Movement?

In chapter 22 of Charles V. Willie's Race, Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status, 1983, he describes the four stages of the Civil Rights Movement---four great national victories.  "Stage 1 was the period of litigation from 1930 to 1954.  Stage 11 was the period of demonstration from 1955 to 1964.  Stage 111 was the period of legislation from 1964 to 1968.  Stage five is the period of implementation from 1969 to the present [1983]."  I would add that 1983 to 2016 has been the stage of reversal---partial reversal of some of the gains of the Civil Rights Movement.

Regarding the demonstration stage, Willie makes this comment:

     Demonstrations were necessary to force the nation to live up to the letter of the law.  The Southern Manifest indicated the states had no intention of abiding by the Brown decision.  They had refused to honor the Plessy decision in 1896, which required that they provide equal if separate education decades earlier.  They believed they could refuse to abide by the law again at the midpoint of the twentieth century.  If the nation had been forced to provide equal facilities for the races whenever they were separated, segregation would have ended before the Brown decision simply because it would have been too expensive.  Although whites who were in charge asserted that this is a nation of laws, they did not abide by Plessy and were in the process of ignoring Brown until blacks put a stop such practices by their nonviolent demonstrations.

My thoughts on what I call stage six.  In the early 80s, President Reagan, with the approval of Congress, started what was called the War on Drugs.  Unfortunately, Reagan vigorously used racial profiling in the enforcement of the War on Drugs.  Result: for the past 30 plus years, unjust mass incarceration of young black and Latino males.  This is a significant reversal of the Civil Rights Movement.

In addition, during the Reagan era, the wealth gap doubled; this began an explosion in the racial wealth gap, reaching a 20-1 ratio.  Combined with mass incarceration, this created a high negative  impact.

These two systems of oppression---in America, systems of oppression are never really ended, only redesigned.  The crushing continues.