5 years ago
I used to think America would age out of racism. What was I thinking?
There was a time when I believed, almost as an article of faith, that with the passage of time, America would age out of racism. What in the world was I thinking? But that is what I told myself in the fall of 1954 — five months after the Supreme Court’s school desegregation decision — when I learned that students attending then-all-white Eastern, Anacostia and McKinley Technical high schools, and several white junior high schools in the District, had staged walkouts to protest the assignment of black kids to their schools.
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