Young Americans must confront racism, intolerance and inequality, which still scar the United States 60 years after the end of officially sanctioned segregation, Michelle Obama has said.
Topics include the denial of citizenship and naturalization to slaves and immigrants, government sanctioned segregation, the struggle for reparations for descendants of slavery, and Japanese Americans during World War II.
King's movement did vanquish the system of legally sanctioned segregation and disenfranchisement that had prevailed in the South when he began, yet he knew better than anyone that his over-all vision remained unfulfilled.
But because equalizing current financing cannot address disparities built up between rich and poor districts over time, and because discrimination suits have faded with the end of legally sanctioned segregation, the latest wave of cases has begun focusing on conditions and programs, not money.
Lincoln's creation also meant that sanctioned segregation in the South was on the wane, she says, citing another element of the move she found attractive.
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s ended the legally sanctioned segregation of the South and challenged de facto segregation across the country.
Aunt Jenny and sanctioned segregation are long gone, but not the effects on his life as well as that of so many others.
Although the Brown ruling ended legally sanctioned segregation, it has not in practice eliminated separate and inferior schools for many students of color.
Although the initial campaign successfully desegregated downtown lunch counters, sit-ins, pickets, and protests against other segregated facilities continued in Nashville until passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended overt, legally sanctioned segregation nationwide.
First, the Brown decision, while ending legally sanctioned segregation, did not (maybe could not) address the fundamental disparities in power inherent in a society where "white skin privilege" dominated.
For decades, dedicated citizens of both races (and both parties) had been fighting — and, yes, dying — to arouse the conscience of the country on civil rights and to persuade the powers that be in Washington of the need for comprehensive federal legislation to smash the system of sanctioned segregation.
