A Fancy

I suppose it seems strange to some people, in 1995, that our young people are not able to comprehend the atmosphere of racial bias that existed prior to the end of segregation in the 1970s and the almost miraculous fading of that bias over such a short period. But it has ever been thus, the events of hundreds of years ago are better understood by our young people than happenings during their own babyhood. This was true of the great depression of the Thirties, and of World War II; and I have no doubt that today’s very small fry when they grow up, will have little knowledge and less understanding of the trials their parents are now suffering with these great waves of “pollution flu” that now and then sweep the world.

However, I am digressing. I want to recall for your young readers the end of racial segregation which finally made this country the true melting pot of the world. Unsuccessful attempts to integrate the races had been continuous since the legal end of slavery but it only took an idea and the right political climate for the growth of that idea to nurture a pell-mell change in our culture.

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I suppose it seems strange to some people, in 1995, that our young people are not able to comprehend the atmosphere of racial bias that existed prior to the end of segregation in the 1970s and the almost miraculous fading of that bias over such a short period. But it has ever been thus, the events of hundreds of years ago are better understood by our young people than happenings during their own babyhood. This was true of the great depression of the Thirties, and of World War II; and I have no doubt that today’s very small fry when they grow up, will have little knowledge and less understanding of the trials their parents are now suffering with these great waves of “pollution flu” that now and then sweep the world.

However, I am digressing. I want to recall for your young readers the end of racial segregation which finally made this country the true melting pot of the world. Unsuccessful attempts to integrate the races had been continuous since the legal end of slavery but it only took an idea and the right political climate for the growth of that idea to nurture a pell-mell change in our culture.