Civil Rights

These two New Yorker articles were quite enlightening, as I have never studied too many specifics about the differences in location in the south and what that meant during this time.  It was made clear that location was absolutely a factor in the treatment and political opportunity structure as well as the repertoire that was safely available to African Americans during this time.  North Carolina, was not as intense as was Selma, Alabama in the way that they were able to work the Civil Rights movement in different, more "ground up" ways in North Carolina that were not safe in Alabama.  In Selma, the movement's actions were based more governmentally and more focused, on law based benefits, such as protection, instead of branching out in the ways that the activists were able to do in Durham.  The fact that some things in the ways of some protection had been done in Durham, so therefore the POS opened up greatly here, compared to Selma- this allowed for African Americans in Durham to push forward with the Civil Rights movement in order for the "deeper south" to hopefully catch on soon enough and follow suit.  Unfortunately, not all of these things have come true, as it is known that racism still exists in the United States.  Just the other day on CNN, I read a report of how Wake County Public Schools- which is Raleigh, North Carolina area is going to be taking away their diversity policy, which many are stating will reinstate segregation... a cut in budget spending is not worth that.