tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post114317110484870479..comments2024-03-18T09:28:08.708-04:00Comments on Maior autem his est caritas: Read it and WeepFr. Gaurav Shroff http://www.blogger.com/profile/04964314266441708310noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-1143218536867619822006-03-24T11:42:00.000-05:002006-03-24T11:42:00.000-05:00Well yes, I'm aware of the difference between the ...Well yes, I'm aware of the difference between the Reconstruction period and the Civil Rights era! Fascinating that segregation had legal fiat from the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1897 and Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 whereas apartheid in South Africa was from 1948 till 1992: it was always a good arguing point to mention this when apologists for apartheid-era South Africa assiniboinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245478607944139417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-1143206761697934222006-03-24T08:26:00.000-05:002006-03-24T08:26:00.000-05:00Quite possibly true. Segregation would not have r...Quite possibly true. Segregation would not have really changed without this: a change of heart, or just a whole "dagnabit, I'm fed up of this" attitude among white Southerners. I think the book reviewed is talking about the period of Reconstruction, in the direct aftermath of the Civil War. [Whoops, I believe in South Carolina, the correct term is "The War of Northern Aggression :-)].Fr. Gaurav Shroff https://www.blogger.com/profile/04964314266441708310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-1143204612479729832006-03-24T07:50:00.000-05:002006-03-24T07:50:00.000-05:00Still, by the same token, the relatively recent Ro...Still, by the same token, the relatively recent Robert Dallek biography of JFK makes an extremely good case -- one I hadn't heard before (and Dallek's book contains very little else that is new) -- that for all the notoriety of the de-segregation period in the US South -- confrontations with the National Guard over James Meredith's enrollment at university; the freedom buses; the murder of assiniboinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245478607944139417noreply@blogger.com