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Rural African Americans and Education: The Legacy of the Brown Decision. ERIC Digest

This digest summarizes impacts of the Brown decision on school segregation and the educational condition of rural African American students today. In the 1990s, over 90 percent of rural African Americans live in the South and continue to suffer from high poverty rates and low educational attainment.

• Author/Creator: Kusimo, Patricia S. Corp Author Eric Clearinghouse on Rural Education, Small Schools, Charleston W. V.
• Author's address: Appalachia Educational Laboratory, 1031 Quarrier St., Charleston, WV 25301-2314.
• Date Published: 01-00
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Rural Education
• Subject: School Desegregation
• Subject: School Resegregation

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