That is true, but actually so were the American ordinary "whites." At that time the miscegnation restraints were still in effect and accepted, keeping thingsas our Vreator originally intended for human happiness. The browning of the races of people originating in the European sector was only beginning, and it continuance has only made things worse.
Never forget that thew institutes of higher education were very active in the liberal social area, planting the seeds of the destruction of the society that was founded on godly biblical protestant theism but tolerating philosophies opposed to it, but hoping that the strength of individual freedoms could extinguish those influences.
Unfortunately, that has not happened, and the liberal theologies of the major denominations have been a major part of the causes of degradation. "Wokeism" is an integral component of the "social gospel" begun in Western theology ny Brooke Foss Westcott, the Anglican Bishop of Durham, that has pervaded all denominational missionary work..
The development of the American society has always been fluid, and the 1950 era was only a passing phase of it. Like the western frontier with its cowboys and Indians, and the post-WWI flappers and Charleston and Prohibition, the pre-Beatles age is gone, some of it yearned but never to return.
All of these passing times have had somber parts that were very much unwanted; never forget that.
The only solution for the ongoing problems is the Second Coming of its Creator and Savior to overcome the god of this world and the inborn sinfulness of its occupants, and to institute His Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace.
The debilitating programs of communism or Mohammedanism or mobocracy cannot ever make things "better," only more deadly and hopeless for the human soul.
We were all better off than royalty..even the poorest slob.. in 1700’s.
People could die from an infected cut before 1880.
The wisdom of Thomas Sowell is such a blessing