"Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka (1954), African American and white supporters attempted to end entrenched segregationist practices."
It doesn't give us enough moral resources to respond to those southern segregationists who invoke their way of life, their traditions, their way of doing things.
But whether Kennedy could have sustained improvements to his marriage and his health, and got a strong civil-rights bill past Southern segregationists in Congress, is less clear-cut.
The scourge had been spreading westward from China's ports; in many cities, infectious diseases were the catalysts for grand segregationist projects, and were underpinned by racist ideologies.
But everyone at the time understands that when this legislation is crafted, Southern segregationist Democrats have a really key role in determining how it's going to be deployed.