Black, white and Brown

by E Wayne Ross on December 6, 2006

Los Angeles Times: Black, white and Brown
FIFTY-TWO YEARS after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the court still can’t agree on what that landmark decision really meant. That was painfully clear Monday when the Brown ruling was cited by justices on both sides of a debate over the constitutionality of programs that try to maintain a racial balance in public schools.

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