This is the oft-repeated story of race in America: During the Boomers’ lifetimes, mandated segregation was outlawed, voting rights for Black people in the South improved, and racial discrimination was ruled illegal and became much less socially accepted. Yet in other ways, things are much the same. As President Obama said at the event marking the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964 voting rights march in Selma, “Our union is not yet perfect, but we are getting closer.”
