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Article: D.C. vs. Board of Education.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)(District Forum)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 10, 1999
- Author:
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Forty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court made what then was the most profound ruling regarding public education. The nation's highest court ruled that schooling black and white children in separate school systems, however equal they purported to be, was unconstitutional. Speaking for the unanimous court, Chief Justice Earl Warren said, "Separate educational facilities are inherently equal." Southern members of Congress as well as powerful segregationists throughout the land were appalled, denouncing the court as an inept fraternity of politicians and professors who had repudiated the Constitution. While black America appreciated the legal standing, they also ...
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