It was a lot of things. You are nit picking for reasons I will never understand.
The primary variable though, was the "General Enlightenment" of people mid century, around the world due to pervasive public education. We were learning how to think!!!
The first kids to get good educations around the 1930's had grown up and were able help their kids get educated. And learning begets learning.
And as we got smarter, we went from 4th grade concrete thinkers, which was where we were around 1900, to much more sophisticated thinkers. And from concrete thinkers to abstract thinkers, able to understand things like civil rights, democracy and the evils of racism.
And collectively those who were learning were realizing how horrible racism and segregation was. We had just allowed women to vote and go to colleges a few decades earlier, so higher order thinking was still in its infancy. .
But all of the advances in civil rights were made because we were getting smarter. Some people were able to change with the times and some people resisted it.
Today it is primarily the Republicans that are fighting history and higher order thinking.
And of course the 1954 supreme court decision declaring segregated schools unequal was part of the "NEW Age of enlightenment"-lol!!
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.Sep 22, 2017 |
