This comes from a collection of sermons in Strength to Love. The speech itself is from 1958 at Purdue University in Indiana.
They claimed that the separate but equal treatment of races
only made Blacks look more inferior by giving them low quality facilities and
materials as well as unequal treatment of African Americans. It was an important decision because it
decided that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional as it violated
the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. This help launch integration in schools.
Answer:
This theme is important for showing how the past can affect the present. Although individuals only live a relatively short time, institutions, ideas, and problems can endure for long periods of time, even thousands of years. This is known as continuity. Although continuity is important in the study of history, historians also recognize that society is constantly undergoing change.
