(Chicago Sun Times) — Fifty years ago, when the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, then a high school freshman, decided to use the “whites-only” public library in Greenville, S.C., he wasn’t thinking about making history, he said.
He just knew it wasn’t fair that the “black” public library didn’t have the book he needed for a school report, and a request to the “white” library was a six-day wait.
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