Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was only 7 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate but equal was unconstitutional.
Before that, though, Green rode the bus from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., to Crestview, Fla., to go to school every day.
“I can tell you what it was like to be in a segregated school and drive by white schools, where the buildings were newer, the buses were newer, where they had the best books,” Green told The Hill.
The...