No, not for a few weeks, but not much more than a few decades. I'm 56 and from what I know from American popular culture there wasn't a whole hell of a lot of national discussion about race issues until the 1950's when brave Black people and brave White people began standing up en masse to the power structure that was actively working to maintain the status quo.
Yes, there were isolated works that considered the thorny American relationship with race, but they were few and far between. |
