The Loving v Virginia Supreme Court ruling, legalizing mixed race marriage, happened in 1968. I was 14 years old, so not exactly ancient history.
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ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoRuby Bridges–the little girl featured in maybe the most famous photo of desegregation, being walked home from school by US marshals, the photo that inspired Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”–she’s still alive. And not super old, either; she’ll turn 72 this September.
“The past is never dead; it isn’t even past.”
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn, it looked for a second like that US Marshal on the right was wearing a shockingly ahead-of-its-time earring on his left ear.
Janx@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s crazy. It’s a Bluetooth earpiece.