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Still Separate, Still Unequal

From the Collection: PAST FORWARD: Conversations with American Experience

Education in America Seventy Years After Brown


National director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP Dr. Ivory Toldson and executive director of the Education and Civil Rights Initiative Dr. Adrienne Dixson speak with professor of education leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, Sonya Douglass about the state of educational equity in America nearly seventy years after Brown vs Board of Education.

Conversation livestreamed and recorded on October 4, 2023.

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