"Meal Time in the Girls' Hostel," South Africa (Image source: http://murraymcgregor.wordpress.com/chapter-15-the-chaos-of-%E2%80%9Cbantu%E2%80%9D-education/)

60 Years After Brown, 20 Years After Apartheid

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Sixty years ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in American public schools. “[S]eperate educational facilities are inherently unequal” wrote the court. The case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, set the stage for the dismantling of legal segregation, culminating a decade later in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. […]

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