The Wonder of Our Change

Richard Cohen, Washington Post
I started off a recent day by reading the obituary of Wesley Brown. I did not know him and, in fact, had never heard of him. He was the first African-American to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. He was the sixth black man admitted and the only one to successfully endure the racist hazing that forced the others to quit. That was 1949. I was 8 years old at the time and had no idea of the sort of country I was living in.I did not know that schools in some parts of the country, but especially in the South, were segregated. I did not know that blacks and whites could not marry. I did...

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