The Urge to Create Gated Communities

<p>It was less than two weeks after my birthday, nearly 70 years ago, on May 17, 1954, that Chief Justice Earl Warren&nbsp;<a href="https://www.masterclass.com/articles/desegregation-of-schools" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">issued a unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court that school segregation was inherently unconstitutional.</a>&nbsp;Thus ended nearly 60 years of &ldquo;separate by equal&rdquo; schooling that permitted separate schooling for Blacks that was anything but equal.</p> <p><em>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka</em>&nbsp;wasn&rsquo;t the beginning of the end of segregation or racism; it was just one battle in an exhausting, seemingly never-ending series, ranging from microaggressions to murder with the jackboot of governmental authority on the neck of Black people in the streets.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/maggies-list/the-urge-to-create-gated-communities-67c01d78fc73"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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