Joseph Clayton, 79, a member of the board doesn't think that racial trust has increased much in Memphis where Martin Luther King led his last campaign - and where he was murdered. But now the poor city will merge its schools with the middle class suburbs.
We'll follow Memphis next semester in Remedies. - GWC
Merger of Memphis and County School Districts Revives Challenges - NYTimes.com: "MEMPHIS — When thousands of white students abandoned the Memphis schools 38 years ago rather than attend classes with blacks under a desegregation plan fueled by busing, Joseph A. Clayton went with them. He quit his job as a public school principal to head an all-white private school and later won election to the board of the mostly white suburban district next door."A bit of the background can be found HERE on Huffington Post
'via Blog this'
No comments:
Post a Comment