There was no civil rights era. There was, and still is, a destroy white peoples’ rights era.

There was no civil rights era. There was, and still is, a destroy white peoples’ rights era.

Federally coerced school desegregation was just another Reconstruction, but one that lasted half a century instead of 10 years.  It destroyed neighborhood schools and the quality of public education, and it violated the US Constitution by making white Americans second class citizens in law.  

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