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· 6 years ago
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And this is strange how?
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awake_ash
· 6 years ago
If she is 62 (or 63 by now) that means she was born in 1955, segregation was still alive until late 60's and early 70's so... Not so strange tbh. Yeah, I know segregation started in the U.S long before the 30's.
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mrscollector
· 6 years ago
I am seriously getting so old lol I thought this was common knowledge. My mom was in highschool when the "black school" and the "white school" was forced to combine. When it happen the only people who complained where the parents. The kids didnt care at all they all hanged out after school already.
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· 6 years ago
Interesting. Maybe it *should* be common knowledge. I know that for me (a 23yo) learning how recent this kind of history is was kind of shocking because growing up, it was always portrayed as "this bad stuff our countries used to do, back when we were too dense to realize that all humans were people." Segregation and other things were denounced as being so obviously(!) bad that it seemed impossible for such conflicting views to be prominent in the same society in such a short time span.
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klymaxx
· 6 years ago
I agree with everyone else, not so strange. My son cried when he learned about Ruby Bridges, and Rosa Parks, and segregation in general. He was amazed to learn that Bridges is only a couple years older than his grandpa.
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somespanishguy
· 6 years ago
I'm now studying civil rights issues in the US, but she's not mentioned at all in my book
