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Indeed - we live in a sanitized world thinking that civil rights happened with the civil war. I'm ashamed to even look at these pics.
by mathattack 12y ago
Indeed - we live in a sanitized world thinking that civil rights happened with the civil war. I'm ashamed to even look at these pics.
- kzrdude 12y agoSurely people know the civil rights movement, 50 years ago?
- rtpg 12y agoIn school it's summarised as "Rosa Parks sat in a white person's bus spot, MLK was shot, and the Civil Rights Act was signed". Really no talk of the lynching beforehand (or anything else in the systematic oppression of blacks).
- mathattack 12y agoFor the people who think of REM as Old Fogey Music, the Civil Rights Movement is a foreign to them as the roaring 20s liberation was to us.