re: #64 KGxvi

Maybe, maybe not. Brown v Board was decided in 1954. The lower court proceedings in Loving v Virginia started in 1958 (shortly after the Lovings were married in DC). It would have been a much slower process, but I think it is entirely possible that the courts would have dismantled Jim Crow.

(I’m not saying that it would have been a better outcome, but I do believe, as King said, that the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice)

What if Eisenhower had not used National Guard troops to enforce desegregation? What if he had instead said “The states can take care of it”?