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Associated Press Covers Marshall Victory
The Associated Press on 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 victory at Marshall University, where the school offered three orientation courses for 鈥淎frican-American students only.鈥 Marshall dropped the racially exclusive language after FIREsent the university a letter warning that such classes violated state and federal law, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The article reports that Marshall defended the policy as an effort by black faculty members to help African-American students 鈥渇orm a bond鈥 in a 鈥減redominantly white community.鈥 Regardless of intention, separate but equal was done away with in 1954 when the Supreme Court decided Brown vs. Board of Education.
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