True khandu, they did. Four years after Bill, I was in Mississippi as part of the Voter Registration Project as an SSOC volunteer. I love to take shots at MS, but probably no state has had to come so far and on a level of progress scale, no state has done as much. They were hard times and turbulent times everywhere, but the states of the Deep South took the brunt of the publicity. It can be reasonably argued though that the open bigotry of the culture was easier to protesst and to change than the hidden and cloaked bigotry of many northern cities. Many speculate that it is the reason that King did so well in the South but fared badly in Chicago and Detroit.

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