Reply To: Political Statements
Trying to pinpoint the one cause of the civil rights movement is like trying to find the one snowflake ultimately responsible for an avalanche; it doesn’t take into account all of the other snowflakes/factors which had to be there as well.
I remember watching my first graders doing work papers and coloring papers for Martin Luther King day back when I still taught, and turning to another teacher to say “None of them realize that they are living the principles that so many fought for- to them, being in a class with children of every color is perfectly normal and ordinary.” We were both old enough to remember when life hadn’t been that way, and were getting perilously close to misty eyed at that point. :o)