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Old 10-03-2017, 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by airstreamingypsy View Post
The fifties were great, if you were a white male in the USA. Not so much for women and minorities.
Agree with you. The adult study group at my church is discussing Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter From The Birmingham Jail" written a few years after the 1950's. This should be required reading for high school students. For some groups, the 1950's were a great decade, for other groups not so much.
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