A Road to the Past

"Journey of Reconciliation" - Freedom Riders, SE Corner of Columbia St. and Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC One of our biggest events in recent history (as in within our parents' lifetimes) was the enactment of the Civil Rights Act in 1965. It was, back then, a pretty huge piece of legislation, both in scope and controversy; almost in similar ways to how the Affordable Care Act has affected the economy and the health industry. But there were several events that had led up to that one moment where President Lyndon B. Johnson had signed the bill into law. All sorts of groups conducted sit-in campaigns, non-violence movements, and pushed the issue forward in the South, where legal racism and segregation were most pervasive. But before all of this, there was the "Journey of Reconciliation." The Journey of Reconciliation was, what many argued, a prototype . It aimed to test the amount of racial segregation in the South, using the Upper South as its first step int