Segregation in the US: Difference between revisions
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[https://eji.org/news/investigation-shows-inequality-school-funding-legacy-racial-injustice/ by EJI 5/16/16] | [https://eji.org/news/investigation-shows-inequality-school-funding-legacy-racial-injustice/ by EJI 5/16/16] | ||
In Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case striking down racial segregation in schools, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that the opportunity of an education “where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.” Less than two decades later, in 1973, the Court abandoned this commitment to equal education when it held in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that there is no constitutional right to equal funding in education. | In Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case striking down racial segregation in schools, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that the opportunity of an education “where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.” Less than two decades later, in 1973, the Court abandoned this commitment to equal education when it held in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that there is no constitutional right to equal funding in education. | ||
=====Our House Divided: What U.S. Schools Don’t Teach About U.S.-Style Apartheid===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/textbook-myths-history-racial-segregation/ by Richard Rothstein 15/12/13 ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
We have paid great attention to Nelson Mandela’s call for forgiveness and reconciliation between South Africa’s former white rulers and its exploited Black majority. But we have paid less attention to the condition that Mandela insisted must underlie reconciliation — truth. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Mandela established, and that Archbishop Desmond Tutu chaired, was designed to contribute to cleansing wounds of the country’s racist history by exposing it to a disinfecting bright light. | |||
