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Defending the Common School
Ford, Michael D. | December 9, 1991 issue

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The article focuses on common school education system. There is an unbroken historical link between the newly freed slaves who fought for universal state-supported public schools in the South and the black mothers and fathers who from the 1950s through the 1980s sent their children in search of a better education on foot and in school buses into the teeth of hostile and sometimes violent white resistance. This determined battle for schooling has been fueled by a commitment to literacy and personal development not just as means to enhanced social mobility but also as keys to inclusion in this society as full and equal citizens.

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PUBLIC schools; EDUCATION; SCHOOL buses; SCHOOL children; AFRICAN American parents; MATURATION (Psychology); SOCIAL mobility
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