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Segregation
Monroe Academy was founded in response to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.
"When theSupreme Court's decision finally etched itself upon the country, the social stuff of that imprinting behaved in ways other than intended."
That year was the height of stop-and-frisk in New York when nearly 700,000 people, more than half of them Black, were stopped by police.
The Democratic 2020 hopeful noted that despite a decades-old legal agreement, integration wasn't immediately successful in the Indiana city.
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The sweeping plan also takes aim at charters, suggesting they divert precious resources away from traditional public schools.
Whites used to put nails at the bottom of pools in Cincinnati and pour bleach and acid in pools with black bathers in St. Augustine, Florida.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) described busing as a tool to be considered for school desegregation.
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton called Biden's comments "egregious" and said the entire Civil War was essentially fought over this concept.
One of the senators reportedly advocated for genocide of black Americans.
When Kenyon Parker served in World War II, the Army was segregated. He and other black soldiers were denied guns, had separate facilities and were often forced into behind-the-line jobs of servitude.