In this quote, Thurgood Marshall is talking about the time between the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (which was supposed to free slaves in the Confederacy) to the Brown vs. Board case which ruled that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.
The reason he brings up these two events is because it shows how little progress American society has changed in these 90 years. Even though African-Americans were supposed to be free citizens after the Emancipation Proclamation, they were still treated as second class citizens in the US. They were constantly targets of voter discrimination, violence, and prejudice.
He would send those who were opposing him to Gulags.
Explanation:
- The BBC writes that 14 million people went through the gulag of "labor camps" from 1929 to 1953.
- An additional 6 to 7 million were deported and exiled to distant parts of the USSR, and another 4-5 million went through " labor colonies, ”which meant serving shorter time sentences.
- The total population in the camps varied from 510,307 (1934) to 1,727,970 (1952).
- According to a 1993 study of Soviet archives, a total of 1,053,829 people died in the gullies from 1934 to 1953.
- These estimates exclude those who died shortly after their release, and whose deaths were the result of cruel treatment in the camps; such cases were common. Studies that take these cases into account for the same time period report a figure of 1,258,537, with an estimated 1.6 million from 1929 to 1953.
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