Here's a 40th anniversary that deserves more attention than it probably will get.

May 10, 2001 9:59 AM

Here's a 40th anniversary that deserves more attention than it probably will get.
posted by darren (6 comments total)

That pic of the fire-bombed bus is fairly disturbing. Amazing how not-so-long-ago that was. Hopefully 40 years from now people will look back at us and think we were so much more hateful and violent. One way to measure progress i suppose...by the degree of revulsion at the way things were.
posted by th3ph17 at 10:12 AM on May 10, 2001

The way things were? A recent study indicated that there is a continuing segregation going on in all of our larger cities, with whites increasingly moving to burbs.
My first job was because a guy I replaced was arrested in a Freedom march in Miss. and refused bail andspent some time in jail...good for me; bad for him. But he was heroic. I am not.
posted by Postroad at 10:21 AM on May 10, 2001

The way things were? A recent study indicated that there is a continuing segregation going on in all of our larger cities, with whites increasingly moving to burbs.


Well of course, its basically safer in the burbs, what do you expect?
posted by PatMcGroin at 10:58 AM on May 10, 2001

True true...i don't think i got my whole thought out in that post...i'm not THAT idealistic and naive to think things are so great now, but they are better in some respects...

i suppose a better way of looking at things would be this:

Some things have changed, some things have not, how do we continue to change things?
posted by th3ph17 at 11:23 AM on May 10, 2001

Thanks for the post darren. What a reminder of our recent past in the South. Just remember kiddies, it's not hate, its' heritage. A heritage of hate. Fly the southern swastika proudly boys! Don't worry, Trent Lott will defend you from the pinkos.
posted by nofundy at 1:26 PM on May 10, 2001

I strongly suggest that everyone celebrate this by picking up Taylor Branch's two books on America in the King years -- they're as good as history gets.
posted by argybarg at 3:09 PM on May 10, 2001