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dolstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 05:40 PM
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106. Perhaps you should read up on the civil rights movement
and particularly the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. They were litigating various aspects of segregation for many years before they took on segregation in the public schools. By the time that Brown v. Board of Education was before the Supreme Court, you had two consecutive presidential administrations (one Democrat, one Republican) on the record supporting desegregation of the public schools. And you had enough progressive justices on the Supreme Court to ensure a lopsided decision in favor of desegregation.

If Brown v. Board of Education had been brought ten years early, they might have lost, or would have at least had a badly divided court. The backlash against Brown was huge, but that's nothing compared to what might have happened if the decision had been handed down ten or fiftheen years earlier. If you think Franklin Roosevelt would have been willing to send in the national guard to enforce the Supreme Court's decision, think again.
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