...it's an old repost, but it's really prescient and so amazingly relevant to today's sad events.
One consequence of the profound changes since his day, and even my own, is this sort of bystander attitude from the present generations of Americans who seem to be unaware or unconcerned with how tenuous something as normalized as my demanding an application and getting hired has become since I was told point blank to my face by many employers as late as the early 80's that they don't hire blacks.
Folks need to take some time and reflect on how close to our own lives and histories all of that was, and what the impact on our daily lives will be when the federal government, who has been the primary defender of those rights, walks away from that obligation to Americans who were once kept low with the government's and the court's blessing.
It was solely the influence of the federal government which caused a huge segment of the country who had grown up with, and had become comfortable with things like locking kids out of schools their own kids attended, out of hospitals and public pools, to get up off of their racist arrogance and get into the swing of an integrated, and equal society.
It's really an amazing time, so very long past the day when that photo was taken years after Dad had retired. Thanks for noticing it. I took it at a concert in a park in the time when he had come to live with us. 
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