Reference letter from Former Speaker of the House in which she
asks, 'From whom did you hear this first hand account, everything probably
did go pretty well for many of the whites. For blacks who didn't mind
staying away from the voting booths, drinking from their own water fountains
and suing their own washrooms standing in the back of the bus--' --in ad
finitum.
It is against list rules to reveal sources etc, I know I can believe
the sources, have you made inquiry to disprove?
Actually, I did not say the blacks had a nirvana type situation -any
more than the whites did, you have to see it all in context that in the
1950s they were less than a century away from slavery, and there was a lot
left to work out in terms of the race relations and etc, but after the 1954
Supreme Court decision and subsequent civil rights activities the
communities went from a workable ambiance in which people talked to each
other to that of two opposing armed camps.
Do you think that was an improvement?
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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