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[https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/from-slavery-to-segregation.html by eji] | [https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/from-slavery-to-segregation.html by eji] | ||
Today, the story of the American Civil Rights Movement is familiar: courageous activists waged an epic struggle, faced great risks, and suffered tragic losses to achieve victories that forever changed the nation. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott; the murder of Emmett Till; the Selma to Montgomery March; and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 are well-known milestones in the movement. | Today, the story of the American Civil Rights Movement is familiar: courageous activists waged an epic struggle, faced great risks, and suffered tragic losses to achieve victories that forever changed the nation. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott; the murder of Emmett Till; the Selma to Montgomery March; and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 are well-known milestones in the movement. | ||
=====The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated the United States===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/forgotten-history-government-segregated-united-states/ by Richard Rothstein 14/11/17 ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the United States and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems — it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. | |||
