You probably should read a little more history. Things were better for most blacks in 1910 than they were in 1940. Woodrow Wilson’s election, and his subsequent expulsion of blacks from the civil service, started a period of decline for blacks that was deepened by the Depression, but had strongly started improving after WW II. Brown vs Board of Education was a result of the change not a cause, and “Civil War” veterans were irrelevant.
Thomas Sowell has written on race problems, notably in Economics and Politics of Race and large parts of his memoir, A Personal Odyssey. His discussion of Brown in the latter is particularly interesting, he was attending Howard University at the time, though a lot of comments about it and its effects are spread throughout the book.
Things were better for most blacks in 1910 than they were in 1940. Woodrow Wilson’s election, and his subsequent expulsion of blacks from the civil service, started a period of decline for blacks that was deepened by the Depression, but had strongly started improving after WW II.
I’m not particularly surprised by this, actually… things also got worse after 1877 when federal troops left the South and paramilitary organizations started suppressing the black vote.
Brown vs Board of Education was a result of the change not a cause
I just meant it as a milestone that showed how things had changed, not as a specific cause of that change. The ruling would never have been made without the successful execution of a long-term strategy to gradually change legal opinions. (The first schools to be integrated by the courts were state-run law schools...)
You probably should read a little more history. Things were better for most blacks in 1910 than they were in 1940. Woodrow Wilson’s election, and his subsequent expulsion of blacks from the civil service, started a period of decline for blacks that was deepened by the Depression, but had strongly started improving after WW II. Brown vs Board of Education was a result of the change not a cause, and “Civil War” veterans were irrelevant.
Thomas Sowell has written on race problems, notably in Economics and Politics of Race and large parts of his memoir, A Personal Odyssey. His discussion of Brown in the latter is particularly interesting, he was attending Howard University at the time, though a lot of comments about it and its effects are spread throughout the book.
I’m not particularly surprised by this, actually… things also got worse after 1877 when federal troops left the South and paramilitary organizations started suppressing the black vote.
I just meant it as a milestone that showed how things had changed, not as a specific cause of that change. The ruling would never have been made without the successful execution of a long-term strategy to gradually change legal opinions. (The first schools to be integrated by the courts were state-run law schools...)