{"id":10971,"date":"2014-05-18T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10971"},"modified":"2014-05-18T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:59:07","slug":"nugget-5-60th-anniversary-of-brown-v-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10971","title":{"rendered":"Nugget 5 &#8211;  60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was three years old and living in Topeka, Kansas when the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education that separate but equal schools were unconstitutional. (Its a subject I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=Topeka+vs+Board\">previously posted<\/a> about)<\/p>\n<p>These days we are reading that our schools across the nation are more segregated than ever. Ditto Duluth. <\/p>\n<p>In Duluth, however, the critical division is more between rich and poor than racial segregation. That is spelled out in the Editorial that I linked to in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10963\">first nugget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m down to about twenty minutes before I leave for church so my nuggets will get more crammed together and more nuggety.<br \/>\nI just finished reading the much touted graphic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Harlem-Hellfighters-Max-Brooks\/dp\/0307464970\">The Harlem Hellfighters<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51eVsyFio6L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More on the Hellfighters in coming posts&#8230;&#8230; Although its a subject I once alluded to in a much earlier Lincolndemocrat <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2053\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was three years old and living in Topeka, Kansas when the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10975,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions\/10975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}