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Jun 09, 2004
While delivering the Supreme Court's decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren remarked, "Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does." He also went on to say, "[The court] conclude[s] that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate... (Mason Gazette, Washington DC)
50 Years Later Jun 09, 2004
"Over the past 50 years, the attempt to integrate the public education system and to achieve full racial equality in other areas has been resisted and openly defied, by policy-makers and the public, to the detriment of the laudable aim of achieving racial equality in America," Harvard law professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. wrote in his latest book, "All Deliberate Speed.". Residents in Summerton, where it is still somewhat taboo for whites and blacks to socialize in each other's homes, say the... (Newsday Nation)
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