The findings underscore the enduring chasm between the way white and black Americans perceive racism and its continued effects, as glaring gaps in wealth and education persist between the races.
In a telephone survey of more than 2,200 adults this month, 44% of white respondents said the U.S. had a long way to go before achieving racial equality, compared with 79% of black respondents. Almost half of whites said the country had made a lot of progress toward that dream in the past 50 years; less than a third of blacks surveyed by Pew agreed.
