The white abolitionists were a tiny activist minority who did absolutely nothing to change the prevailing opinions re: racism
I mean, segregation was over and integration had been forced for a while. Brown v. Board was in the 50s and the blacks there were regarded
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as heroic. It was very cool to think that we would all just get along and be one people then
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You really do have to go back to the 30s to find any significant Klan activity or segregation rise, and even that was rather localized.
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It was in the 50s yet segregation was still the rule in the 60s so much so that the so-called civil rights laws had to be done.
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