... , because it is one that still continues to be a sore spot in America. With years of change and constant focus, we as a people continue to find ways to bridge the gap and level the playing field in a much larger vineyard. But there are still thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all ... a understanding of why anyone would deny others there right to progress. On opposition to the issue, a writer from the Washington post said this. " The Supreme Court's famous 1978 Bakke opinion, on affirmative action, never made any sense...

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... does not fit with prevalent conceptions of what the black freedom struggle looked like." (Freedom North, Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komozi Woodard 138).Political activists Ruth Batson and Ellen Jackson were instrumental in attempting to bridge the gap between the educational disparities in predominantly black schools and the traditionally white schools. Segregation in the schools was a major cause of concern because ... at white schools. Hence black students were not being provided with the necessary tools to compete with a well educated white peer for a job. The fight for desegregation was ...

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