Reminder that:

-Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer first aired on 12/6/1964, before integration was made fully federally enforceable by Heart Of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. on 12/14.

-Schools in districts such as Greenville in South Carolina took until 1970 to be de jure desegregated.

-Mississippi senator James Eastland, an open and vocal white supremacist and anti-semite, was in office until 1978.

Former Louisiana KKK leader David Duke won 43.5 percent of the vote in the 1990 Louisiana Senate election.

-A majority of the US population disapproved of interracial marriage until the mid 1990s.

-South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, who once spent 24 hours straight defending segregation, remained in office until shortly before his death at 100 in 2003.

-In 2004 Alabama, a majority of voters opposed a ballot measure to officially remove unenforceable Jim Crow clauses in the state constitution.

-Segregated proms were still held in rural Georgia up through 2013.