When I started school in Virginia in 1968, the public schools in my county were still segregated by race. When our school board finally began complying with Brown vs. Board of Education [3], a group of parents decided to start an all-white private school. They showed up in our driveway one evening to convince my parents to join them. My father — a white factory worker and a son of the brutally segregated South — sent them away unhappy. Years later I asked him what he'd told them. "I told them you and your sister had to learn to live in the world," he said. "And I told them the world wasn't going to be all white."
Links:
[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/260747-fisher-v-texas-its-wrong-to-curb-diversity-
[2] http://www.naacpldf.org/case/fisher-v-texas
[3] http://www.naacpldf.org/case/brown-v-board-education
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