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Article: Bush, Kerry Mark 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2004
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Byline: Frank James
May 18--TOPEKA, Kan.--President Bush and his presumptive Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, on Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision by declaring that there was much was left to do to fulfill the promise of the 1954 ruling that ended legal segregation in the nation's schools.
While the president avoided any hint of politics in a speech that described America's racist past in dramatic terms, the Massachusetts senator, without mentioning the Bush administration by name, criticized some of its actions as inconsistent with the spirit of the Supreme Court's Brown decision.
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