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The Hydra of Jim Crow

Patricia J. Williams
August 10, 2006   |    This article appeared in the August 28, 2006 edition of The Nation.
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Teaching children to speak across boundaries is the essence of what
integration is all about. It carries all the urgency of global peace.

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Patricia J. Williams
Patricia J. Williams
Patricia J. Williams, a professor of law at Columbia University, was born in Boston in 1951 and holds a BA from...

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Patricia J. Williams
August 10, 2006   |    This article appeared in the August 28, 2006 edition of The Nation.
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