Tag Archives: Segregation

Transcript: Martin Luther King’s speech to NATRA,1967 (second half) | #Racism on Blog#42

This is a transcript of the second half of Dr. King’s speech to NATRA. August, 1967, Atlanta, Georgia. Continue reading Transcript: Martin Luther King’s speech to NATRA,1967 (second half) | #Racism on Blog#42

#Baltimore and Race-based Residential #Segregation | Jared Bernstein | #Economy on Blog#42

While the protests and riots in Baltimore in recent days were critically triggered by yet another death of a young black man interacting with the police, there are of course many other forces at work.

Mike Fletcher, a journalist at the Washington Post, has made important contributions to the poverty/economics beat in recent years. But Fletcher has also lived in Baltimore for decades, and his perspective on recent events is particularly germane.

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Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal | Rethink Mississippi

By Jake McGraw

  • Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal
Myrtle School, Union County, 1956 (courtesy of Bill and Rita Bender)

Fifty years ago this month, Congress passed the landmark Civil Rights Act outlawing segregation in all public facilities. The Brown v. Board of Education decision desegregating public schools was already a decade old. Nevertheless, nearly all of Mississippi’s schools still operated under the pretense of “separate but equal.”

It was obvious to anyone who cared to look that Mississippi was more interested in separation than equality. White schools had the appearance of modernity, even if they often lacked the quality of more affluent states. Black schools, meanwhile, were often rustic and ramshackle. One-room schoolhouses had not yet gone extinct in some areas. The state spent 50 percent more on white education than black education, while districts supplemented white school funding with an average of four dollars for every dollar spent on black schools. Disparities in some districts reached 80 to one. Continue reading Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal | Rethink Mississippi