Segregation in the US: Difference between revisions
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[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38536668 by Nick Bryant 10/1/17 BBC] | [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38536668 by Nick Bryant 10/1/17 BBC] | ||
When in the 1950s, a former TV executive by the name of E Frederic Morrow became the first black White House aide not to have a job description that included turning down beds, polishing shoes or serving drinks with a deferential bow, he was prohibited from ever being alone in the same room as a white woman. | When in the 1950s, a former TV executive by the name of E Frederic Morrow became the first black White House aide not to have a job description that included turning down beds, polishing shoes or serving drinks with a deferential bow, he was prohibited from ever being alone in the same room as a white woman. | ||
=====The white Southerners who fought US segregation===== | |||
[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47477354 by BBC 12/3/19] | |||
The black neighbourhood of Greenville in segregated 1960s Mississippi had never seen anything like it. Neither had Mr Gorton when he encountered white people praying alongside their black brethren during an impromptu street-side Pentecostal revival. | |||
