A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

In the Brown decision the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated and I can't be part of that.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.