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[https://www.pbs.org/beyondbrown/history/fullhistory.html by PBS Shows] | [https://www.pbs.org/beyondbrown/history/fullhistory.html by PBS Shows] | ||
In 1950, the rules of racial segregation governed the most minute details of social life in much of the United States — and the rules of segregation defied all logic. Linda Brown, a seven-year-old third grader in Topeka, Kansas, had to walk six blocks to catch the black school bus, when there was a school — a white school — seven blocks from her home. | In 1950, the rules of racial segregation governed the most minute details of social life in much of the United States — and the rules of segregation defied all logic. Linda Brown, a seven-year-old third grader in Topeka, Kansas, had to walk six blocks to catch the black school bus, when there was a school — a white school — seven blocks from her home. | ||
=====LYNCHING IN AMERICA: CONFRONTING THE LEGACY OF RACIAL TERROR===== | |||
[https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ by LYNCHING IN AMERICA] | |||
Lynching profoundly impacted race relations in this country and shaped the geographic, political, social, and economic conditions of African Americans in ways that are still evident today. Terror lynchings fueled the mass migration of millions of Black people from the South into urban ghettos in the North and West throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Lynching created a fearful environment where racial subordination and segregation was maintained with limited resistance for decades. Most critically, lynching reinforced a legacy of racial inequality that has never been adequately addressed in America. | |||
