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Haley Barbour's Account Of Civil Rights Era In Mississippi Assailed By NAACP, Historians


there's racism in the North, too; it just isn't anywhere near as blatant as here in the South.



f'rinstanc­e, Einstein found Princeton a hotbed of racism and fought against it--and for civil rights--fo­r the remainder of his life.



it's a little-kno­wn part of his life that isn't in the usual biographie­s. the Smithsonia­n holds a collection of artifacts and documents from Einstein's civil rights efforts, but has not, to my knowledge, exhibited them to date.



the 'cultural tradition' of the South makes racism lots easier to spot, since it's a lot more 'in your face', but it isn't exclusive to the South alone.



people here just make bigger idiots of themselves expressing it.
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