Forget desegregation: None of the myriad accomplishments of a man later reelected by forty-nine of fifty states would have seen the light of day.

Source: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-thing-about-trump-and-abortion/

For southern whites, government was forcing school desegregation.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/new-deal-us-economy-american-dream/676051/?utm_source=feed

In 1874, California’s Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was legal, and in 1979, voters passed a proposition blocking desegregation efforts tied to busing.

Source: http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/berkeley-public-schools-begin-talks-on-reparations-will-students-be-paid/

Tuck curbed trade unions (think “right to work” laws), and Almond executed “massive resistance” to U.S. Supreme Court-ordered school desegregation with racist rhetoric.

Source: https://www.fcnp.com/2023/03/17/our-man-in-arlington-519/

Vanessa Siddle Walker of Emory University has also that tens of thousands of experienced, credentialed Black teachers and principals were fired, demoted, or forced to resign during desegregation.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/raymondpierce/2023/05/16/what-about-school-desegregation-considering-new-strategies-around-race-and-education/

We see three key components to this discussion: streets named as resistance to desegregation, the costs associated with renaming and what to do about the name “Lee.”

Source: https://alextimes.com/2023/10/whats-in-a-name-2/

Wilkerson had been a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-Black air unit that flew in World War II, paving the way for desegregation in the military.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/7/31/23814697/prosecutors-seek-contempt-charge-against-former-judge-accused-of-stealing-from-tuskegee-airman