A Christmas Memory | Compare and Contrast
1930s: Schools and most other public facilities across the South are segregated by race.
1956: The University of Alabama expels its first black student in defiance of a federal court order; Southern congressmen issue a manifesto pledging to use "all lawful means" to defy desegregation.
Today: Schools and public facilities are open to all regardless of race, but economic inequality is still seen by some as a barrier to full integration.
1930s: The first "talkie" was produced in 1928; a few years later all films have sound. Elaborately...
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