Here's a cool little historical tidbit.
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954) - Wikipedia
"In 1862, the US Congress passed the
Morrill Act, which established federal funding of a
land grant college in each state, but 17 states refused to admit black students to their land grant colleges. In response, Congress enacted the second Morrill Act of 1890, which required states that excluded blacks from their existing land grant colleges to open separate institutions and to equitably divide the funds between the schools. The colleges founded in response to the second Morill Act became today's public
historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and, together with the private HBCUs and the unsegregated colleges in the North and West, provided higher educational opportunities to African Americans. Federally funded
extension agents from the land grant colleges spread knowledge about scientific agriculture and home economics to rural communities with agents from the HBCUs focusing on black farmers and families."
18 fucking 62, white congressmen elected by white voters, using federal power and white tax dollars to help blacks.
Here is something in the time frame you said nothing was done.
"After the case was reheard in December, Warren set about persuading his colleagues to reach a unanimous decision overruling
Plessy. Five of the other eight judges were firmly on his side. He persuaded another two by saying that the decision would not touch greatly on the original question of
Plessy's legality, focusing instead on the principle of equality. Justice
Stanley Reed was swayed after Warren suggested that a Southerner's lone dissent on this issue could be more dangerous and incendiary than the court's unanimous decision.[
citation needed] In May 1954, Warren announced the Court's decision, which he wrote. It said that "segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race" was unconstitutional because it deprived "the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities" and thus equal protection under the law"
Separate but equal, overturned unanimously by an all white Supreme Court in 1954.
Warren worked hard and smart to get a strong unanimous decision to settle the issue. You ignored his work and his bravery.
Not to mention the decision of Eisenhower, who choose a civil rights supporter for the court.
Eisenhower, who won two landslide elections despite, (or because?) of his strong support for civil rights.
This is Eisenhower on civil rights, in 19 fucking 53
"Eisenhower overruled him: "We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country."
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Generations of good people, working and sacrifice and putting themselves at risk at times, and you dismiss them and lie and deny their contributions.