ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION — Almost 30 years ago, former Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalist Douglas Blackmon published an op-ed in the Sunday edition on May 31, 1992, with the headline “The death of a dream.”
The article found Blackmon revisiting his hometown of Leland, Mississippi, on the 10th anniversary of his graduating class (although he moved away before he could graduate with them). Blackmon expected to return to his hometown 10 years later to write an article about how integration was going.
“Of course,” Blackmon said, “[I] discovered that it was the opposite, that integration had already begun to start falling apart.” [MORE]
