This Week in Southern History, we go all the way back to February 1st, 1960, and here’s what the world looked like then!: In the most remarkable comeback in the tournament's history, Arnold Palmer erases a seven-stroke deficit and goes on to win his first and only US Open.
I know you can’t include every detail, but an important one is that those young men sitting quietly at a lunch counter had to endure verbal and physical attacks. They were called names, spit on, hit, pushed, and had food thrown on them. In many cases protesters were arrested. As we all know when a white, southern sheriff takes a black person to jail their not nice about it.
I know you can’t include every detail, but an important one is that those young men sitting quietly at a lunch counter had to endure verbal and physical attacks. They were called names, spit on, hit, pushed, and had food thrown on them. In many cases protesters were arrested. As we all know when a white, southern sheriff takes a black person to jail their not nice about it.
I hope we never go back...