A Desperate Injustice By Tennessee Republicans
The following post is by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner:
In the 1950s and '60s, the forces that stood against a growing tide of civil rights were emboldened with a misguided belief that they represented the true America. They were bolstered by the living legacies of racism and white supremacy. They were empowered by the law and by tradition. They were invigorated by their own shamelessness.
They believed they could act with impunity. They assumed that most Americans identified with their bigotry and ...