No Negroes Allowed

[bill_sheehan]

On this day just 55 years ago, the Arkansas National Guard, armed and in battle uniform, stood before Little Rock Central High School to prevent nine African-American children from entering. It was not one of our nation's prouder moments.

In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that the "separate but equal"

Comments

[liddle_oldman]

I have not lost faith. I'm not in despair, because I know that there is a moral order. I haven't lost faith, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

I used to take the UMB shuttle from the harbor campus to downtown, and we were routinely stoned going through Southy because there were black students -- college students -- aboard. I think it has changed since then.

Though the arc is very long.

[pamelina]

I may be naive, but it seems to me civil rights for homosexuals are improving at a far faster pace than civil rights for blacks did. Maybe we're improving?

But since the 1770s, it's always been true that this kind of social change has come from governments imposing the law on the people, and not from the people up.