welcome to the show. i am mehdi hasan. they called it black monday. it was the day the supreme court issued its famous ruling in brown v. board of education. a ruling that told americans school segregation was unconstitutional. and for a group of white mississippians, that they came to be known as black monday. the monitor came from this man, thomas pickens brady, a prominent segregationist and future mississippi supreme court justice who gave a defiant speech against the decision entitled, black monday. it was printed as a booklet and passed out to white school children in mississippi. seeped in racism and white supremacist thinking, you might not be surprised to hear that it was published by the white supremacist organization, this is since councils, a group that was also formed in mississippi, right after, take a guess, the brown the board ruling. i am telling you all of this to show you how deeply rooted the racism in mississippi goes, how vicious the backlash was to fe
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