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Article: The Revolution Is Being Televised -- on the Internet.
- Article from:
- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- December 10, 1998
- Author:
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The day the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in Brown v. Board of Education -- May 17, 1954 -- has been called "the most important [day] of the 20th Century."
In many ways, [that day was part of] a terrible era in America: a time of murder and a church bombing in Birmingham, and violence in the streets. It was a bitter period for America. But it was also a time of hope. For not only did that decision allow millions of African American children to go to better schools, that decision helped demolish barriers separating races all over America -- whether at lunch counters, or water fountains, or on the job. It provided opportunity for millions of ...