Both underscore what has changed — and what hasn’t — in the almost 70 years since Brown while also questioning tidy presumptions.
By putting the films together, it just challenges your assumptions in a really interesting way.”Both films also grapple with an unavoidable question: Why has the process been so difficult?
Today, when segregation is rife in even some of the country’s most ostensibly liberal enclaves, the reasons aren’t always plain or openly acknowledged.
A lot of white parents, in the supposedly enlightened North as well as the historically segregated South, were willing to go to great lengths to keep their children away from their Black peers.
And a lot of politicians were happy to help them make it so.
Persons:
”, Douglas A, Oscar, Sam Pollard, Brown, Cameo George
Organizations:
U.S . Department of Education
Locations:
Mississippi