50 years ago today, the country changed for the better

Agreed, MM.

Without a doubt.

Brave folk.

Cool post

Cycloptichorn

Major action well done.. with long term impact. Gives me chills, really.. what four people can do.

More than 15 years ago I was privileged to be shown the premises of the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensborough, at that time being readied to become a civil rights museum. I was introduced to the then-curator of the museum, a gentleman whose name I no longer remember. I was even given a souvenir key chain with the museum logo. Still have it somewhere, I believe. In the course of time I forgot all about it, especially since there was nothing to bring me back to Greensborough. I assumed, somewhere in the back of my mind, that the museum had duly opened, probably within a year or so of my visit, and was operational. Imagine my surprise to hear on NPR's "Morning Edition" that the official opening was today, to coincide with the sit-in's first day.

Even 15 years ago -- never mind 50 -- it was virtually impossible to imagine that one day an African-American would be this coun try's chief executive.

We've come a long way, baby.

I sometimes wonder if we are brave now as we were then. The battles for equality we fight for today don't seem to have emergent heroes.

Someone wiser than me, tell me how it is.

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Of those 4 black college freshmen, 1 of them is now a general and has a degree in engineering physics.