Monday, July 1, 2013

Insights into surprising connections

Andrea mentioned that she did not know that women were still dealing with birthright issues into the 80s.  Neither did I.  Here are some other insightful surprises Kerber had in store:
-“At one point the association of Communism with attacks on segregation erupted in the demand that black faculty testify to their own support of segregation in order to clear themselves of charges of Communism.
-Tensions between minorities during WWII: Negroes, for example, had been able to move into the homes left vacant by the Japanese-Americans who had been interned.”

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