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Asheville City Schools seeks changes to desegregation order - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

… the low achievement levels of African American students: from poverty to parents … the school to Asheville’s African American community.” That approach, argues Acebo …

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(1957) Dwight Eisenhower, “Address on Little Rock"

The Little Rock Crisis erupted in September 1957 when Arkansas Governor Orval M. Faubus used state National Guard troops to prevent nine African American students from attending the then all-white Central High School. On September 20, Federal Judge Ronald Davis ordered Governor Faubus to remove

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Watson, Diane Edith (1933- )

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Paige, Roderick Raynor (1933- )

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