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Brown v. Board of Education.

On June 28, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that altered Brown v. Board of Education forced boards of education across the country to no longer use racial criteria to reduce segregation. With racial discrimination and segregation in the schools again beyond the reach of the law, millions of

African-American school children will suffer the same disadvantages as before the Civil Rights Movement (In These Times, September 2007). In "A Different View on School Desegregation" (www. huffingtonpost. com, August 13, 2007), Edward Whitfield, himself a child of public school integration in the South, uses his own family history to reflect on the complicated effects of school desegregation on African American students.

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