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Making Segregation Legal Again
Remember learning about the Civil Rights Movement in school?
We learned how Rosa Parks refused to move to a seat at the back of a segregated bus when the white driver demanded she do so, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.
We learned, of course, about Dr. Martin Luther King and his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” at the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom.
Most of us have seen pictures like these:
While we could do a lot better, going beyond this in teaching children other important Civil Rights leaders like John Lewis, Bayard Rustin, Fannie Lou Hamer, C.T. Vivian, and others, the main takeaway schoolchildren all over America understand is that racial segregation of schools, restaurants, theaters, waiting rooms, is wrong. We addressed it in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that Dr. King et al. worked tirelessly and non-violently to push through Congress and President Lyndon Johnson’s administration.
