Cohen: Even today, America still ignores the black experience

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – The most unlikely expression of the unsettled past in the “Cradle of the Confederacy” is not the duelling monuments to civil war and civil rights that line the capital’s gracious Dexter Avenue. It is a few miles from downtown, more subtly, on Ann Street.
The school is one of those standard mid-century, low-slung red-brick institutions. From behind, it looks like an abandoned warehouse of smeared windows and cracked walls.
In front, though, a life-siz