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Events, July 23 – 30, 2020
July 23 8 am Princeton Board of Education Policy Committee hearing on renaming John Witherspoon Middle School Written comments on the subject of the JWMS name may be submitted to the Board via feedback@princetonk12.org. To join the meeting on Thursday morning,…
Read MoreFrom students in high school all the way to the president’s desk.’ How a government class fought for the release of unsolved FBI civil rights case files.
Tom Jackman’s article describes the efforts of Hightstown, NJ high school students to get the federal government to release information about 128 “cold” cases of lynchings of black Southerners in the decades after World War II . “Hightstown High School…
Read More50 Years Ago: President Johnson Signed The Fair Housing Act
Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch reviews the history of government policies that created and reinforced segregation. The Fair Housing Act was an attempt to correct the situation that failed time and time again. To watch the 6 1/2 minute…
Read MoreA ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
Terry Gross interviews Richard Rothstein, whose new book, The Color of Law, examines the local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation.
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