Is Equal, and Who's Creating Equal?

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Dudley flood: In the decision, chief justice earl warren wrote, separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Dudley says that many states focused on the word deliberate, not speed. The plan was advertised in newspapers as a way to insure that no child in north carolina will be forced to attend a school with a child of another race.

15 years after the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, many schools across the South were still segregated. Some school districts actively blocked desegregation. North Carolina passed legislation authorizing tuition grants to white private schools, sometimes called "segregation academies." Members of the KKK held rallies in North Carolina, describing desegregation as "anti-Christian" and "communistic." When the Federal government pressured school boards to comply or lose their funding, many responded by shuttering Black schools and assigning Black students to formerly all-white schools. It was called "one-way desegregation."

In a very rural part of North Carolina, Black students and their families decided to fight back.

We speak with Dr. Dudley E. Flood about his work desegregating every school in North Carolina.

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