The only disagreement I would add here it that the one idea that needs to spread was always there in their minds and hearts, Freedom, just waiting to be unshackled.
OK, that’s not a disagreement, just a stylistic insight. LOL. Another great piece. Yet, I don’t think the white leaders of those states ever stopped pushing for the repression or restriction on a (black Americans) person write to read and learn. The resistance to inequality is an uncured disease. As a reaction to the Supreme Court’s passing of Brown on 1954, then the Brown II decision in 1955 that said, “Seriously, we mean it, in all due haste”, Kentucky pass the 1957 provision in their Constitution to make all public schools to be racially segregated. Then, for good measure, they passed a law to suspend compulsory attendance suspended in school systems where-ever integration ordered and said that no state funds should be given to to nonsegregated schools. What is missing from the Florida history books (and the other 49 states) is the long resistive reaction to a civil rights advancements made. Only the advancement is celebrated; the gutting of it for decades after it is not. I think the reason DeSantis is just tapping into the resistance and defunding of schools is to signal a movement that never really stopped.