[Nextrush]

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was opposed by Goldwater on principled constitutional grounds.

It was too big of a reach for the federal government but emotions over racism had reached a fever pitch in 1963 and 64 just like they do about school shootings nowadays.

[neverdem]

Ping! Has any one started a state ping list?

[Ditto]

Good article and accurate as I recall from 1964.

He did not mention Goldwater desegregating the Arizona Air National Guard in the late 40s before the regular Air Force did so.

Goldwater was the real Civil Rights candidate in 1964, and Johnson was a Jim Crow hustler who had the support of the left including the main stream media.

[ansel12]

you would almost think that it was the Republican Barry Goldwater, not the Democrat George Wallace, who stood in the schoolhouse door shouting “Segregation forever!”

Many reading this sentence, will be surprised to learn that George Wallace, in his last election as governor of Alabama, in 1982, won with more than 90 percent of the black vote.

[Frank_2001]

Great article!

[mansfield53]

So, are the schools better today than they were then?

[Bratch]

Brown could hardly have been more symbolic. Third-grader Linda Brown had to walk six blocks to the bus stop and then ride a bus for a mile to her all-black elementary school, while there was another elementary school — an all-white one — just seven blocks away. Had it not been for segregation, Miss Brown would have attended Sumner Elementary, named for the great abolitionist Republican; instead, she was consigned to a segregated school named for Virginia slaveholder and proto-Democrat James Monroe. Sumner Elementary would later be closed by Topeka’s authorities — as part of a legally mandated desegregation plan necessitated by post-Brown litigation.

And yet, since the mid-70's, ALL the students are bused miles away from their homes.

Such progress!