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Black Nationalism: Part 2
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Could Black Americans use the American system to dismantle segregation — or was the system itself the problem?
In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education declared segregated schools unconstitutional. A year later, the murder of Emmett Till showed just how far America still had to go.
For integrationists like Martin Luther King Jr., the answer was to make America live up to its own promises. Use the courts to remove…
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