May 17, 2014

Saturday Status: Brown v Board of Ed + 60

     The excellent PBS program Frontline offers online viewing of a documentary about a teacher who conducted a daring experiment the day after Dr. King's assassination that has relevance even today.
Where are they now?
        Everyone is talking about the fact that so many schools are as segregated today as they were before the Supreme Court decision 60 years ago, prompted in part by "white flight" and the creation of hundreds of segregation academies. 
     Look at the founding year of some of the private schools in your part of the Deep South: 1954, over and over again.

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