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Important milestones in African-American education 3 Articles

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    by Tom Koecke

    Homer Plessy looked like an average white man, but he was part of a conspiracy to challenge Jim Crow laws that relegated Black people to second-class citizen status. Once he was seated with his first-class train ticket tha...read more

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    by Jocelyn Young

    If we are counting milestones we must start at the beginning. Many of the schools that African Americans attended were sub par to say the least. Until Brown vs.Board caused the United States to take a second look at separ...read more

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    by R. Renee Bembry

    Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America, and author of the Declaration of Independence the document proclaiming independence of thirteen North American colonies from Great Britain was Americ...read more

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