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How did white students respond to school integration after Brown v. Board of Education?

  • Written by Charise Cheney, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon
How did white students respond to school integration after Brown v. Board of Education?The collective memory of school desegregation is of anger and division, like in this photo of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford walking away from a crowd outside a high school in Little Rock, Ark.Bettmann via Getty ImagesHow did white students respond to school integration after Brown v. Board of Education?

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