I could ride on an integrated trolley bus on the base, ... but when I left the base, I had to ride home on a segregated bus.

That's just like a bus ride.

I can see you've done a lot of work, but you are off base here. If and when you get appointed to the Supreme Court you can write opinions as you choose.

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

'This child's getting old,' he muttered with stark regularity, an old-timey refrain that mountainmen used to utter when their trailblazing days were over,

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.