[thecavemaster]

my 2 cents
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did nothing to "open up" the lunch counters at Woolworth's but the free market system did. I think Rand was trying to make a philosophical statement that the market will change with societal changes. More toward a laissez-faire approach vs regulatory approach

In the United States of America, no human being should have to wait on the "free market" so that they can eat lunch at Woolworth's or stay in a Holiday Inn. Federal troops in Alabama and Mississippi sent a clear signal that the "Jim Crow" days were over. Some nebulous concept of the deity of free markets certainly didn't.