
#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues
The Martyr Made Podcast
The Importance of Integrity in New York City
By about 1964, the city was forced to admit that true integration was just not an achievable goal. And so instead they shifted their focus away from helping get the motivated minority of ghetto kids into white schools and instead trying to improve conditions in ghetto schools. One of the schools slated to be built was called Intermediate School 201 or IS 201 in East Harlem. Black activists in the city actually tried to block it being built because building new schools in the ghetto, they thought, was a cop-out from pursuing integration.
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