Given current events, it's worth remembering just how explicitly tied to historic racism the attack on schools is.
GA Gov Herman Talmadge spelled it out in 1952:
“There is only one solution in the event segregation is banned by the Supreme Court, and that is abolition of the public school system.”
GA Gov Herman Talmadge spelled it out in 1952:
“There is only one solution in the event segregation is banned by the Supreme Court, and that is abolition of the public school system.”
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“The mixing of races in the schools will mark the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it.”
This shit goes deep, and is also why the right doesn't want us learning about systemic racism and "CRT"
My math says that 27 Senators and 56 Representatives were born before 1952. This is all still in living memory.