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[https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/segregation-20-americas-school-prison-pipeline by Dennis Parker 19/5/14 ACLU] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/segregation-20-americas-school-prison-pipeline by Dennis Parker 19/5/14 ACLU] | ||
In an iconic image painted after the Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education decision, Norman Rockwell depicted a solitary black girl, dressed in a crisp white dress, walking to class on what is obviously her first day at a newly desegregated school. What sears the image in our memory are her surroundings: four federal marshals, assigned to protect her as she makes her way through a hostile crowd. | In an iconic image painted after the Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education decision, Norman Rockwell depicted a solitary black girl, dressed in a crisp white dress, walking to class on what is obviously her first day at a newly desegregated school. What sears the image in our memory are her surroundings: four federal marshals, assigned to protect her as she makes her way through a hostile crowd. | ||
=====Poverty, segregation persist in U.S. schools, report says===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/poverty-segregation-persist-in-u-s-schools-report-says by | |||
Maria Danilova 11/1/18 PBS NEWS] | |||
WASHINGTON — Too often, low-income, black and Latino students end up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks and unqualified teachers, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. | |||
