When I Started Looking At This Map About American Schools, I Did Not Expect That Bar To Go Up

After Brown v. Board of Education (more on that below), America specifically ordered many school districts to desegregate (aka stop having just one type of person at the school). This was supposed to make it more likely that African-American kids would be in schools with non-African-American kids … this is desegregation. It made it official:…

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Lori White

Oct 11, 2014

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When I Started Looking At This Map About American Schools, I Did Not Expect That Bar To Go Up