Racism And Segregation In School
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Nine young men dragged through four years of trials. Ranging from
twelve to twenty-one, these young men lost what some would call the golden
years. All on the whim of two young women, despite the fact that they
recanted. Racism is a strong subject to some, to others it is unrecognized.
For the ....
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.... the land
of the free, is that the African-Americans had to sit in the back of the
bus when there weren't even any white people on the bus. Rosa Parks was
even arrested because she wouldn't give up her seat to a white person. She
was in jail, but a year later a judge ruled against segregation.
One other proof of racism is segregation in school. Almost every
white school had new books and lots of luxuries the black students could
only dream of. It wasn't until 1954 that segregation o ....
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