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From her Wikipedia article:
This bit of trivia is actually what surprised me most. "A medical purpose" is so general, and 1988 is so late by comparison.
Ruby Bridges--the little girl featured in maybe the most famous photo of desegregation, being walked home from school by US marshals, the photo that inspired Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With"--she's still alive. And not super old, either; she'll turn 72 this September.
That's the fact that blows me away about segregation.
"The past is never dead; it isn't even past."
Damn, it looked for a second like that US Marshal on the right was wearing a shockingly ahead-of-its-time earring on his left ear.
That's crazy. It's a Bluetooth earpiece.
The Loving v Virginia Supreme Court ruling, legalizing mixed race marriage, happened in 1968. I was 14 years old, so not exactly ancient history.
It's easy to forget sometimes how recent segregation still is. It reminds me of this letter from Emory university dated 1959, less than 75 years ago, denying an applicant for being "a member of the negro race." They only apologized for it about five years ago.
Here's a good 2021 article from Emory University Magazine discussing Hood and his application.
Edit: My favorite paragraph:
Yeah considering all the multi racial dance videos of the 90s it's easy to forget how segregated the world still was
Is*