Segregation's storytellers: History emerges from those who lived it
In 1958, if you'd said a black man would be running for president of the United States of America in 50 years– and might have a good chance at winning the job– you'd be greeted with knee-slappin' guffaws. Heck, an African American couldn't go to school with white children then, much less run for president.
And as crazy as that notion would have seemed, flip the mirror back from 2008 and chew on another seemingly insane idea: A majority of Virginia legislators would rather close the public schools than accept the enrollment of what were then called Negro children.
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