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Education is gradually becoming more important to the U.S.
To be a competitive worker, having a high school diploma is a must, and a college diploma a plus.
Thus, discrimination at the base level of education - the lack of access to good, free education - disenfranchises POC.

Read each column carefully. Can you guess what year each quote is from? Click on the boxes to reveal the year!

1974 or 2017?

"A federal district court judge has decided that Gardendale—a predominantly white city in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama—can move forward in its effort to secede from the school district that serves the larger county. The district Gardendale is leaving is 48 percent black and 44 percent white. The new district would be almost all white."

2017
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"The NAACP's major concern is for the education of our children in such a way that these children - whether white or black - will know how to live together in peace, without racial or color bias ruining their lives. Unfortunately, today's parents did not learn this lesson in school, or the Birminghams and Selmas, the Roxburys and Harlems would not be as they are today."

1974
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1970 or 2017?

"Black students were more than three times as likely to attend schools where fewer than 60 percent of teachers meet all state certification and licensure requirements.”

2017
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"[We are] rooted in the firm conviction that blacks can succeed in the classroom at the superior levels of achievement displayed by blacks in the athletic arenas of this nation."

1970
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