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LAWRENCE AARON
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-28-2004

Remembering the civil rights movement
LAWRENCE AARON
Date: 04-28-2004, Wednesday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B

WITH the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education upon us, the news is going to be full of people recalling the civil rights period. And rightly so. You'll be seeing a lot more.

The ruling outlawed school segregation, but it also set the stage for forced desegregation of daily life - where people worked, how they got there, where they ate, and where they called home.

Like no other contemporary law or court decision, this one stopped people in their tracks because it said that the ...

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