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In Atlanta
All of the local media are having an orgy of news about the 50th anniversary, and I've read everything about it published in the Atlanta newspaper, and in the local alt. weekly.
I'm thinking about a letter to the editor or submitting an op-ed piece:
It gripes me that in about ten pages of local coverage, never once has it mentioned that the school board members, the sherrifs, the state senators, the state reps, the Governor, the US Senators and
Representatives from GA - all these elected officials who kept their well-polished shoes on the necks of the black people - were Democrats.
The US Supreme Court - totally Democrats appt. by Roosevelt and Truman - considered and initially rejected the Brown vs Board of Educ. case. It got reconsidered, after the Chief Justice had died, and Eisenhower appt. Earl Warren, a Republican, and became the law of the land. Thanks to the Republican Chief Justice.
I feel they deserve a little credit.
Perhaps, Tom, you could find out: Were the Topeka School Board members at the time Democrats?
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