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"
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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.
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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.
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