““Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black students in the South. “While we were forming mobs to drive an Autherine Lucy [the black woman who integrated the University of Alabama in 1956] from an Alabama campus, the Russians were compelling ALL children to attend the best possible schools,” opined the Chicago Defender. Until the United States cured its “Mississippiitis”—that disease of segregation, violence, and oppression that plagued America like a chronic bout of consumption—the paper declared, it would never merit the position of world leadership. An editorial in the Cleveland Call and Post””
![“Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black students in the South. “While we were forming mobs to drive an Autherine Lucy [the black woman who integrated the University of Alabama in 1956]…” quote by Margot Lee Shetterly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f32/margot-lee-shetterly-8665_books_black-newspapers-and-their-readers-waste_3074327.jpg)
![“In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and…” quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4c7/kareem-abdul-jabbar-1909_academic_in-january-of-1969-after-a-meeting-to-di_2064630.jpg)
