“I lived through Rosa Parks, I lived through Martin Luther King, Jr. The consensus was at that time among white people that those civil rights efforts were in the noblest tradition in the American republic…
Yeah, right. Those days were just downright PEACHY throughout the South for people striving for Civil Rights.
Hint to Mr. Hedgecock: To this very day, there are still communities in the southern US that STILL celebrate the MLK holiday as either “Robert E. Lee Day”, or even more egregiously, “James Earl Ray Day”.