1910s??? Is this just a typo, Jim? No, the South was segregated well into the
1960s. That's what all the sit-ins and marches with Dr. King were about. There
was even a law in Virginia until recently banning interracial marriages and
there's probably still some laws of that type on the books in some of those
states, all justified by the claim of "states' rights." Ugly ugly segregation
was unbelievably ugly and, no, unfortunately Lincoln didn't make all things
right.
Debra Shea
Jim L'Hommedieu wrote:
> Somehow I was not aware that the segregation in the south (in the USA) was
> as recent as the 1910s. I thought that Lincoln made things right and
> magically, everything changed overnight. I was so wrong. (I hated history
> so I never paid attention. I kept waiting for "the point". The "formula",
> the solution that would let me condense the lesson to a one-liner. Hey,
> this strategy worked in Science, Math, and grammar.)
