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Ed Newman
Ed Newman
Sep 2, 2018 · 4 min read

“How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?”

We often hear people talk about the 50’s as the “good old days.” In reality, the very things that were wrong in the 50’s are what led to the upheavals of the 60’s, no issue more so than American racism.

The conflicts over race long preceded the Freedom Riders who put their lives on the line to draw awareness to this special problem of the Deep South. Poet/journalist Carl Sandburg shone a light on Northern racism when he wrote about the Chicago race riots of 1919 in which 38 people…

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Ed Newman

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Retired ad man, I’m an avid reader who writes about arts, culture, literature & other life obsessions. @ennyman3 https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/

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