Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools are still segregated.
By Kira Zalan
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Sixty years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregating schools was unconstitutional because “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the nation was searching for its moral compass. Despite the historic ruling, decades would pass before integration took root in Southern states, which rebelled furiously against federal policies regarding race. Yet today, while not legally sanctioned, more U.S. students are in segregated schools than a few decades ago. And experts say that these schools now are still as inherently unequal as their legally sanctioned predecessors.