It was a world both recent and foreign. As newspapers hemmed and hawed. As politicians urged defiance of the courts. As preachers twisted words in the Bible to justify discrimination.
for Black and white people to play checkers or dominoes together. Or basketball or football or pool or just about anything else.
on golf courses rather than to allow integration. They shut down public pools rather than let Black people swim in them. , the people who stood by and accepted the status quo, the overtly racist and those too timid or distracted or speak. But it wasn’t so long ago. You can see that past more clearly every day, as politicians and school boards try to hide it.
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