Earl Warren was three-time Republican Governor of California and the Vice Presidential nominee on the Republican ticket in 1948. Appointed Chief Justice by President Eisenhower. And yet the sweeping decisions of the Warren court were stunning.

were available in the 60s. The news was a 15 minute show. We were a lot more removed from it all. I do remember when a black family moved into a building in my neighborhood in 1963 in Chicago. Neighbors swarmed the building, broke windows and shouted at the family for days. I watched it all and didn't really disagree. After all, why did this black family have to move into MY neighborhood? Thank God it has changed, for me at least. The hatred was there. What was missing was our access to it.

one could easily make a case that the privatization of the public school system of today is an outgrowth of that some 60 years later
Earl Warren was the "worst damnfool mistake I ever made" quoth Eisenhower.
Warren led a liberal court which knocked down many barriers - Roberts will sure as hell never do that. He will now continue his trek to being the worst CJ ever.

all the anti-segregation statutes passed in the late 50's and early 60's provoked a much more violent reaction, particularly in the Southern states. However, what was missing was the incessant gasoline-throwing of RW hate radio, RW hate TV (Fux) and the easy access to all the crazies via the internet. These new technologies have permitted the haters to get much more wound up and the rejection by this group of the Court's decision to appear to be a much more important issue than it really is.

.. armed troops had to go into the South to enforce Civil Rights.

Nowadays, we try to do it through the DOJ and the courts with
seriously weak and mixed results.

It reversed a century and a half of SCOTUS thinking and rulings.
Many, if not most, southerners perceived it as an attack on their region, culture, heritage, economic 'conventional wisdom', and way of life.

I grew up in Birmingham ('Bombingham') in the 40s and 50s.
Although I didn't understand it as such at the time, I saw first hand the racial prejudice and, later, the violence.

Bad times.

But why do we forget our bloody past?

The screamers will continue to dominate the airwaves,
and many people will be exposed to their lies,
and absorb their prejudices because the screamers
use the language of hate, individualism
and paint any variation as a threat.

We need reminders.. but the hater don't want to listen.