So you saw little of your state and the segregated communities that comprisefd and still do. That's fine. It explains your impressions of MS.
BTW, the armed forces were desegregated almost 20 years before you were born. Perhaps you were mistaken?
He is.....I was at Benning, Bragg, and Leonard wood. Clayton in Panama. Then there is NAM. There was no segregation of Blacks going on during the 60s and the 70s.
History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~