The Photo That Exposed Segregation

One was trying to go to school; the other didn’t want her there. Together, Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan starred in one of the most memorable photographs of the Civil Rights era. But their story had only just begun.



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/books ... eview.html

Aw, can't we go back to the 1950's? That photo speaks volumes.

towermonkey wrote: Aw, can't we go back to the 1950's? That photo speaks volumes.

From the article

Gov. Orval Faubus’s National Guard kept the black students out of the school.

a Democrat.

a sad period in our lives, we have come a long way..to bad Cain is being attacked by liberal blacks..

Grady wrote:

towermonkey wrote: Aw, can't we go back to the 1950's? That photo speaks volumes.

From the article

Gov. Orval Faubus’s National Guard kept the black students out of the school.

a Democrat.

So? The southern demmocrats of that time fled the party and joined ranks with republicans. What does pary affiliation have to do with it anyway?

And Eisenhower (R) started desegregation after Truman (D) successfully desegregated the Army.

LBJ(D) is the real hero here who took on the powerful Southern Democrats and continued desegregation and adding civil rights to minorities, especially blacks. LBJ was a real scumbag in so many ways, but he redeemed himself here and changed party politics for the next century.