July 23, 2019
Civil Rights, Then and Now
By Abraham H. Miller
The civil rights movement was in full swing. Governor George Wallace had stood in the doorway at the University of Alabama only to be finessed by President John F. Kennedy federalizing the Alabama National Guard. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream†speech from the Lincoln Memorial.
It was a hot muggy summer in the early 1960s, and a Midwestern university was holding a special graduate program. Students came from all over, including the South.
We looked upon the Southern students with suspicion and inquisitiveness. The particular group of four white males were always impeccably dressed.
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