On this day in 1956, the White Citizens Council and Klan launched full-scale rioting in Clinton High School when it became the first school to be integrated in the South. It was bombed two years later.
If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.