America 1964

[Fall]

Hotel owner pours acid in a pool to get rid of the swimming black people

[anzeloti]

[Basra-]

[Grant]

This photo is a good representation of the issues that brought on the Civil Rights Movement, and 1964 was the year.

The Voting Rights Act- 1965

http://www.civilrights.org/voting-rights/vra/

This act changed my life, and it changed America.

It had been Mormon Church doctrine from the beginning that a dark skin constituted the "Mark of Cain". Blacks could be members, but were denied access to the priesthood, which is essential to the religion. In 1966 I left the Mormon Church over the issue of Black equality and taught ESL in Somalia RATHER THAN serve a Church mission in Germany. By 1978 the change in US political policy was so influential and compelling the Church leadership changed doctrine to say that "any righteous man" was eligible for the priesthood. This has not made a great difference in Church membership as most Blacks have been leery of an organization that discriminated against them for so long, and also, some general members were offended that doctrine, after polygamy was outlawed in 1890, had again been changed. The advent of the internet has compounded this difficulty, as negative information on the Church and, especially DNA data that contradicts the Book of Mormon, has become more readily available. Despite a present policy of equality, the Mormon Church, which had manned the barricades against Black equality since 1830, is in rapid decline.

http://www.exmormon.org/ (It's a clear fraud.)

http://www.4utah.com/content/news/top_s ... om9IYJYnRA

If I am not mistaken, there is a white man in that pool (on the left, back to camera), who could have been me or any of a number of my friends of that period. There were many of us who would not have been pouring acid in that pool, and we are now clearly in the majority. In a year when Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States, it is somewhat difficult to argue the US has not changed since 1964.

[SecretAgent]

No bra

[Arabman]

It's unbelievable how America was mere 50 years ago.

[Basra-]

It's unbelievable how America was mere 50 years ago.