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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 4354374, member: 6911"] The year I was born, 1955, Emmett Till was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Money, Mississippi, for whistling at a white woman. Blacks wouldn't be permitted to vote- without being murdered, that is- until ten years later. African-Americans weren't permitted to ride at the front of interstate buses, or buses anywhere in the South, at that time. Nor could they order a hamburger in Woolworth's in the South. That would only come years later, and after many deaths. Sandra Day O-Connor, who would become the first woman justice of the Supreme Court, graduated from Stanford Law School with high honors in 1952. But no one would employ her as an attorney. Pretty lousy decade for a lot of people. [/QUOTE]