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A Dream Deferred

Only sustained community activism will reverse the Supreme Court’s most recent betrayal of Brown v. Board of Education

By Lewis M. Steel

On June 28, three years after the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court subverted Brown’s meaning to block public school integration plans. As a result, boards of education across the country, which have used racial criteria to reduce segregation, must undo their efforts or themselves be branded as racial discriminators. Examining the role of the… return to article

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