Want to take a break? This will take you back to a place that seems so recent – 1968 – and yet is a long way off. It seems amazing to think that so recently a person could be legally denied the right to rent an apartment or purchase a home they could afford simply because of their skin color. I thought of this the other day when I saw a report on the news about a trial presided over by an African-American judge. Was there a single black judge in the nation in the mid-1960s? Perhaps. I don’t know. But I do know Augusta has a federal courthouse named in honor of a jurist of color – The Honorable John H Ruffin Jr – something that would have been unthinkable in Dr. King’s day. Martin Luther King was truly a great and brave man who was the catalyst for tremendous change.
Enjoy this week’s Hump Day Hiatus.
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