In 1957, the National Guard went to Little Rock, AR, to escort nine black children into a white public school. The courts had deemed segregation unconstitional, and nine families watched as their children walked through picket lines with armed guards.
Fifty years later, I continue to be surprised that things do not appear to have changed a great deal in public education. Segregation is now called "social" segregration, or segregation by choice.
Read here about the day.
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This is very sad although 50 years has not been a long it has been long enough for racism to not exsist
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