Ken de la Bastide, writing for the Kokomo Tribune has an article (picked up by the Courier Journal) entitled Desegregation at its Dawn about Charles Burk, now 85 years old, who was a federal marshal out of Logansport who was assigned to help with desegregating more than a dozen school integrations. Burk talks about the bravery (or perhaps ignorance) of one of the little girls he helped. He also described the racist pieces of crap masquerading as teachers (not his words) who refused to teach the little girl.
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“When I became marshal down there, one of the deputies said, ‘You don’t remember me, but I was one of those guys throwing eggs and rocks at you,’ ” he said.
That’s a quote from the above article of this 85 yr old federal marshall reminiscing on his integration duties in 1960.I’m sure cultural religion had a lot to do with the vehement anti-integration action .Religion lifts people individallly,but it can promote mob action through the culture with God as the pseudo-instigator.But years later the hate had gone from the rock-thrower,now a deputy ,a new era had arrived and the rock throwing was just a casual memory,as the above quote indicates.Where did all the passion go? Religion can be enabler of evil and this is a perfect example.Segregation by race for its own sake is certainly evil from a religious perspective,so we have a dichotomy.I have no specific evidence these were Christians,but the self-righteous hatred is unmistakable,and we need God on our side for that,and this was the segregated South ( New Orleans)and segregation of the races was how God saw it as head honcho of the culture… In stark contrast,those enforcing integration were just doing their job and working for the government.