"Well into advanced age, Mr. Carter [Federal judge Robert Lee Carter] retained the fire of a civil rights agitator who believed that much remained to be done in the pursuit of racial equality.
“Black children aren’t getting equal education in the cities,” he said in an interview with The Times in 2004. “The schools that are 100 percent black are still as bad as they were before Brown. Integration seems to be out, at least for this generation.”
But, he said, “I have hope.”
“In the United States, we make progress in two or three steps, then we step back,” he added. “And blacks are more militant now and will not accept second-class citizenship as before.”
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
JUDGE ROBERT LEE CARTER
"Well into advanced age, Mr. Carter [Federal judge Robert Lee Carter] retained the fire of a civil rights agitator who believed that much remained to be done in the pursuit of racial equality.
“Black children aren’t getting equal education in the cities,” he said in an interview with The Times in 2004. “The schools that are 100 percent black are still as bad as they were before Brown. Integration seems to be out, at least for this generation.”
But, he said, “I have hope.”
“In the United States, we make progress in two or three steps, then we step back,” he added. “And blacks are more militant now and will not accept second-class citizenship as before.”