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I am a child of the eighties, a child of parents of the sixties. They were both liberals and brought me up to be a liberal who believed everyone was equal. I was brought up on the music of Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton and a bunch of others it was part of the music of my childhood and it formed a good part of my political ideology.
And if I were to travel back to the 50s now, you can imagine how I would react to segregation utter abhorrence and disgust and protesting against it as much as possible.
An 1896 Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, had declared “separate but equal” Jim Crow segregation legal. The Plessy ruling asserted that so long as purportedly “equal” accommodations were supplied for African Americans, the races could, legally, be separated. In consequence, “colored” and “whites only” signs proliferated across the South at facilities such as water fountains, restrooms, bus waiting areas, movie theaters, swimming pools, and public schools.
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