Supreme Court Poised to Roll Back Even More of the Progress Blacks Have Made in the U.S. in the Last Half Century

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12. One of my memories driving to our new home in North Carolina

It was after dark and we were tired. We passed a nice, well lit motel and I saw a neon sign over the office that said "colored only" I had no idea what that meant so asked my mom who replied, hmmm, I don't know. Of course she knew, she and dad had been stationed in VA for the first two years after I was born late in 1947, but she didn't know how to explain it. We were moving from a 2 year stint in Illinois preceded by 5 wonderful years in CA.

We stopped at a kind of run down motel later.. no signs that I noticed, but pretty sure it was a white only dump. The military had been integrated so when we reached our new home at Cherry Point Air Base we were welcomed by our black neighbors.

I was unprepared for the ignorance encountered outside the base in our all white segregated school, while my new friend next door went to some other school much farther away.

This is what republicans want to "take back.." our stupid racist segregated past. Truman integrated the military with Executive Order 9981..wonder when Project 2025 will target that.