"When you look at Brown you are looking at a moment so powerful it is the equivalent of the Big Bang in our solar system," says historian and commentator Juan Williams. It is the story of two little girls walking through a railroad switchyard in 1950s Topeka, Kansas, lunch bags in hand, unable to attend a nearby white school, making their way to the black bus stop beyond the tracks.Īnd it is the larger story of countless other African-American children walking great distances, against great odds, to reach their own segregated schools as buses filled with white children passed them by.īut it is, at its heart, a story of togetherness, of courageously good-hearted and open-minded black and white people-and others-working together toward a constitutional ideal. It is, on its face, a story of separateness. I don't care if he's as white as the drippings of snow. I just mean to get for that little black boy of mine everything that any other South Carolina boy gets. We ain't asking for anything that belongs to those white folks.
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