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[https://www.propublica.org/article/living-apart-how-the-government-betrayed-a-landmark-civil-rights-law by Nikole Hannah-Jones 25/6/15 PROPUBLICA] | [https://www.propublica.org/article/living-apart-how-the-government-betrayed-a-landmark-civil-rights-law by Nikole Hannah-Jones 25/6/15 PROPUBLICA] | ||
On Wednesday, the administration announced an effort it said would put some muscle behind the slogan, saying it would enforce a new set of rules involving federally subsidized housing that require cities and counties to actively document and combat segregation in their communities. | On Wednesday, the administration announced an effort it said would put some muscle behind the slogan, saying it would enforce a new set of rules involving federally subsidized housing that require cities and counties to actively document and combat segregation in their communities. | ||
=====It’s been 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education. The US is still trying to achieve the promise of integration.===== | |||
[https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/17/us/school-segregation-brown-v-board-dg by Chandelis Duster, Nicquel Terry Ellis and Alex Leeds Matthews 17/5/24 CNN] | |||
As the nation commemorates the ruling’s 70th anniversary, civil rights leaders and advocates tell CNN the case may have paved the way for more equal and integrated schools, but fierce – and continued – opposition to integration means the ruling in no way assured the end of segregated education in the United States. | |||
