70 Years Ago - Local Korean War POWs return home
The Lackawanna County soldiers arrived this morning at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport.
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The Lackawanna County soldiers arrived this morning at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport.
rights. historians have looked at his records in this area and have come to very different conclusions. when eisenhower assumed the presidency, the armed services had recently been integrated, segregation still held firm in public schools. no civil rights act had been passed since 1875. and the power of the military had not been used to protect the interests of african-americans since the reconstruction period. by the end of his presidency, the brown versus board of education decision in the supreme court upended the notion of separate but equal education. federal troops had been sen...