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Our Roots – Opening the School House Doors

03/31/11
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I recorded the HBO special about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (7/2/1908 – 1/24/1993) and just watched it. It was so moving it brought me to tears. In 1896, the US Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”  “Separate but […]

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